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 Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought

Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri’s Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought explores these issues from a critical perspective, making it a unique and important contribution to contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences. This two-volume work is divided into two parts: Volume I focuses on the question of religion and the state, while Volume II addresses democracy and human rights.

In Volume I, Al-Jabri provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between religion and state in Islam, focusing on the conduct of the Companions of the Prophet at the time of the Rashidun Caliphs. He argues that their example provides a useful authoritative referent for contemporary debates about religion and state. Al-Jabri also examines the application of Islamic law (shariah) and the role of ijtihad, or interpretive jurisprudence, in shaping Islamic thought.

Volume II continues this analysis by examining the concept of democracy and its historical role in the Arab world. Al-Jabri explores contemporary Arab ideology, which often expresses doubts about democracy, and argues that civil society and the elites in the Arab world often fear democracy. He also discusses the role of human rights and the need to enhance awareness of these rights in the Arab world.

Throughout the two volumes, Al-Jabri emphasizes a critical and analytical approach to Islamic thought, urging his readers to re-examine their assumptions and to think deeply about the issues at hand. His work is a vital contribution to contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences and will be of interest to anyone interested in the intersection of religion, law, and politics.

Book Contents

• Volume I: Religion, State and the Application of Islamic Shariah
• Introduction
• Part One: The Question of Religion and the State
• Religion and the State in the Authoritative Cultural Referent
• Religion and State in the Renaissance Authoritative Referent
• Religion, Politics and Civil War
• Part Two: The Question of Applying al-Shariah
• Awakening and Renewal
• Traditionalism (al-salafiyah) or The Historical Experience of the Nation?
• Extremism: Right and Left
• Extremism Between Creed and al-Shariah
• For the Procession of Ijtihad
• The Rationality of the Rulings of al-Shariah
• Ruling and Dependence
• Every Age has its Special Needs
• ‘Avoid the Hudud Penalties when in Doubt’
• Concerning ‘Complete Application of al-Shariah’
• Volume II: Democracy and Human Rights
• Introduction
• Part One: Democracy: Its Historical Role in the Arab World
• A Demand in the Arab World
• Al-Shura and Democracy are not One and the Same
• The Difficult Birth
• Partnership in Human Governance
• Democracy and the Right to Speak
• No Way Out Except Through a Historical Bloc
• Part Two: Democracy and the Current Arab Reality
• The Problem of Transition to Democracy
• Objective Situations Conducive to Democracy
• Contemporary Arab Ideology and its Doubts about Democracy
• Dispersing the Doubts about Democracy
• The State that Swallows up Society
• Cicil Society and hte Elites in the Arab Nation
• Elites Fear Democracy
• Democracy, a Necessity
• Part Three: Cultural Implantation of Human Rights in the Contemporary Arab Conscience
• Human Rights: Particularity and Universality
• Universality of Human Rights in the European Point of Reference
• Universality of Human Rights in the Islamic Authoritative Point of Reference: Reason and Innate Nature
• The Universality of Human Rights in the Islamic Authoritative Point of Reference: Covenant and al-Shura
• Philosophy of Human Rights and Religion
• Freedom is One Thing, Apostasy Another
• Women’s Rights in Islam: Between the Fundamental Principles of al-Shariah and its Particular Rulings
• Part Four: Enhancing Awareness of Human Rights in Islam
• The Concept of the Human Being in Modern Thought
• The Concept of the Human Being in the Qu’ran
• The Right to life and Its Enjoyment
• The Right to Freedom of Belief, Knowledge and Difference
• Al-shura between the Qu’ran and the Circumstantial Interpretations
• The Right to Equality and the Question of ‘Preference’
• Slavery and the Rights of Women
• The Right to Justice: The Strength of the Qu’ranic Text and the Vacillation of the ‘Advisory Discourse’
• The Rights of the Weak Oppressed: The Right of the Poor to the Wealth of the Rich
• Social Security in Islam: Necessity of Development
• The Rights of God, the Rights of People: Application of al-Shariah
• Index

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