Human Rights and Reformist Islam

Mohsen Kadivar, Mirjam K nkler, Niki Akhavan

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Edinburgh University Press
06 June 2023

Islamic life & practice; The Koran; Islamic law

Series: In Translation: Contemporary Thought in Muslim Contexts

Human Rights and Reformist Islam' critiques traditional Islamic approaches to the question of compatibility between human rights and Islam, and argues instead for their reconciliation from the perspective of a reformist Islam. The book focuses on six controversial case studies: religious discrimination; gender discrimination; slavery; freedom of religion; punishment of apostasy; and arbitrary or harsh punishments. Explaining the strengths of structural ijtihad, Mohsen Kadivar's draws on the rational classification of Islamic teachings as temporal or permanent on the one hand, and four criteria of being Islamic on the other: reasonableness, justice, morality and efficiency. He rejects all of the problematic verses and Hadith according to these criteria. The result is a powerful, solutions-based argument based on reformist Islam

providing a scholarly bridge between modernity and Islamic tradition in relation to human rights.

By: Mohsen Kadivar
Preface by: Mirjam K nkler
Translated by: Niki Akhavan
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781474449311
ISBN 10: 147444931X
Series: In Translation: Contemporary Thought in Muslim Contexts
Pages: 552
Publication Date: 06 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mohsen Kadivar is Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University. One of the most original and prolific figures of the Iranian reform movement, he is a versatile theologian, philosopher and intellectual historian who has written ground-breaking books on human rights and Islam, Islamic political thought, and Islamic philosophy and theology. His forthcoming 'Islamic Theocracy in the Secular Age' will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2021. Kadivar has been a vocal critic of Iran's doctrine of clerical rule and a strong advocate of democratic and liberal reforms in Iran as well as constructional reform in shari'a and Shi'a theology. He has served time in prison in Iran for his political activism and beliefs; his writings have been banned in Iran since 2009.Professor and Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, and author of International Human Rights and Islamic Law (OUP, 2003).Niki Akhavan is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Media and Communication Studies at The Catholic University of America and author of Electronic Iran (Rutgers University Press, 2013). She has been a Persian-English translator for over 20 years.

Reviews for Human Rights and Reformist Islam

""In this pathbreaking work, Mohsen Kadivar, a leading Muslim theologian and religious scholar, presents an authoritative and systematic methodology for interpreting, reforming, and applying Islam's sacred teachings and juridical rulings in ways that would make them compatible with universally accepted norms of human rights. By including freedom of thought, civil and minority rights, religious tolerance, and gender equality, as well as human security and economic rights, Kadivar offers a progressive vision of Islam that could serve as a basis not for political power and state governance but as a spiritual and ethical guide for believers and a foundation for a secular, pluralistic and egalitarian civil society. "" -Ali Banuazizi, Professor of Political Science and Director of Islamic Civilization and Societies Program at Boston College