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In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations. Since then, the compatibility of Islam and human rights has emerged as a particularly thorny issue of international concern, and has been addressed by Muslim rulers, conservatives ...
Islam is now the second largest religion in the world. For several decades, this global community has struggled with issues of national independence, cultural identity, modernization and development, the challenge of fundamentalism, democratization, and pluralism. The way in which these questions are resolved will have an incalculable effect on world politics in the coming century. In this book, sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, ...