Democracy, Human Rights and Law in Islamic Thought (Comtemporary Arab Sclarship in the Social Sciences)

Contents......Page 4
Volume I: Religion, State and the Application of Islamic Shariah......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part One: The Question of Religion and the State......Page 36
1. Religion and the State in the Authoritative Cultural Referent......Page 38
2. Religion and State in the Renaissance Authoritative Referent......Page 54
3. Religion, Politics and Civil War......Page 64
Part Two: The Question of Applying al-Shariah......Page 68
4. Awakening and Renewal......Page 70
5. Traditionalism (al-salafiyah)...or The Historical Experience of the Nation?......Page 74
6. Extremism: Right and Left......Page 78
7. Extremism Between Creed and al-Shariah......Page 81
8. For the Procession of Ijtihad......Page 84
9. The Rationality of the Rulings of al-Shariah......Page 88
10. Ruling and Dependence......Page 93
11. Every Age has its Special Needs......Page 97
12. \'Avoid the Hudud Penalties when in Doubt\'......Page 101
13. Concerning \'Complete Application of al-Shariah\'......Page 106
Volume II: Democracy and Human Rights......Page 112
Introduction......Page 114
Part One: Democracy: Its Historical Role in the Arab World......Page 124
1. A Demand in the Arab World......Page 126
2. Al-Shura and Democracy are not One and the Same......Page 129
3. The Difficult Birth......Page 133
4. Partnership in Human Governance......Page 137
5. Democracy and the Right to Speak......Page 141
6. No Way Out Except Through a Historical Bloc......Page 145
Part Two: Democracy and the Current Arab Reality......Page 150
7. The Problem of Transition to Democracy......Page 152
8. Objective Situations Conducive to Democracy......Page 155
9. Contemporary Arab Ideology and its Doubts about Democracy......Page 159
10. Dispersing the Doubts about Democracy......Page 162
11. The State that Swallows up Society......Page 166
12. Cicil Society and hte Elites in the Arab Nation......Page 169
13. Elites Fear Democracy......Page 173
14. Democracy, a Necessity......Page 176
Part Three: Cultural Implantation of Human Rights in the Contemporary Arab Conscience......Page 180
15. Human Rights: Particularity and Universality......Page 182
16. Universality of Human Rights in the European Point of Reference......Page 185
17. Universality of Human Rights in the Islamic Authoritative Point of Reference: Reason and Innate Nature......Page 190
18. The Universality of Human Rights in the Islamic Authoritative Point of Reference: Covenant and al-Shura......Page 195
19. Philosophy of Human Rights and Religion......Page 199
20. Freedom is One Thing, Apostasy Another......Page 203
21. Women\'s Rights in Islam: Between the Fundamental Principles of al-Shariah and its Particular Rulings......Page 208
Part Four: Enhancing Awareness of Human Rights in Islam......Page 214
22. The Concept of the Human Being in Modern Thought......Page 216
23. The Concept of the Human Being in the Qu\'ran......Page 219
24. The Right to life and Its Enjoyment......Page 224
25. The Right to Freedom of Belief, Knowledge and Difference......Page 228
26. Al-shura between the Qu\'ran and the Circumstantial Interpretations......Page 233
27. The Right to Equality and the Question of \'Preference\'......Page 237
28. Slavery and the Rights of Women......Page 241
29. The Right to Justice: The Strength of the Qu\'ranic Text and the Vacillation of the \'Advisory Discourse\'......Page 245
30. The Rights of the Weak Oppressed: The Right of the Poor to the Wealth of the Rich......Page 248
31. Social Security in Islam: Necessity of Development......Page 252
32. The Rights of God, the Rights of People: Application of al-Shariah......Page 256
Index......Page 259