Islam and Human Rights: Advocacy for Social Change in Local Contexts reflects the outcome of the Islam and Human rights Fellowship Program, a three-year project at Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, USA. The Program brought ten scholars and activists together to explore the relationship between human rights and Islam, with the objective of helping people within Islamic societies promote and protect human rights from an Islamic perspective. The book begins with a Foreword by Prof. Abdullahi an-Na’im, Director of Program, which explicates the idea and approach of the program and the ten studies. The articles in the collection are divided into three categories. Gender Justice, Sexuality, and Health Rights includes articles on: Islamic perspective. The book begins with a Foreword by Prof. Abdullahi An-Na’im, Director of Program, which explicates the idea and approach of the program and the ten studies. The articles in the collection are divided into three categories. Gender Justice, Sexuality, and Health Rights includes articles on: Islam and women’s rights in Senegal; slam and gender justice in Philippines; and domestic violence in Indonesia. The category of Civil and Economic Rights consists of articles on: Shari’ah in Northern Nigeria; constitutional and human rights perspectives on Islam in Malaysia; rights of slum dwellers in Morocco; and rights violations of the Al-Akhdam ethnic minority in Yemen. The category of Commentary on Islam and Human Rights includes: an evaluation of a rights paradigm beyond secularism and Islamism for Nigeria; and an examination of human rights in Islam between universalistic and communalistic perspectives. An articles on promoting human rights education through the Islamic Law curriculum in a university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia represents the final category of Human Rights Education in an Islamic Context. This book marks an innovative and original contribution to the discourses of human rights theory, practice, and advocacy; Islamic law; Islamic studies; women’s rights, gender studies; and fieldwork methodology. It is an invaluable resource for scholars, rights activists and advocates, NGOs, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in issues of Islam and human rights.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lynn Welchman
Lynn Welchman is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Law at the Law Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and with Sara Hossain is Co-Director of the CIMEL/INTERIGHTS ‘Crimes of Honour’ Project. She was formerly the Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL) at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Prior to her academic appointment, she worked with the Palestinian NGO human rights movement, and has also undertaken work for international human rights organizations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mahmood Monshipouri
Dr. Monshipouri is the Executive Director of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA), an independent and nonprofit educational organization designed to generate and publicize scholarly research on developments in Iran and the Middle East. He is also the Chair of the Political Science Department at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut. Dr. Monshipouri's Publications include Islamism, Secularism, and Human rights in the Middle East (1998) and the co-edited volume Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (2003).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mashood A. Baderin
Dr. Mashood A. Baderin is a Reader in International Human Rights Law and Director of the International Law and Human Rights Research Unit at the School of Law, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He researches on International Law, International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law, with particular interest in the interaction between International Law, International Human rights Law and Islamic law in Muslim States. He is the author of International Human Rights and Islamic Law (2003) and has published articles in many international academic journals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shadi Mokhtari
Shadi Mokhtari has a JD from the University of Texas, MA in International Affairs from Columbia University and an LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School. She is currently a PhD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law Shool and the Managing Editor of the Muslim World Journal of Human rights. Shadi has participated in numerous human rights initiatives in the Middle East, the United States and Canada. her current doctoral research focuses on American and Arab engagement with the international human rights framework following revelation of torture at Iraq;s Abu Ghraib prison.
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