Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought

Emphasises the distinctive political and cultural heritage of the Arab world whilst rejecting the philosophical discourses that have been used to obscure its democratic deficit. This volume interrogates concepts such as democracy, law, and human rights, looking at how they have been applied in the history of the Arab world

The limits of ethics in international relations : natural law, natural rights…

Ethical constraints on relations among individuals within and between societies have always reflected or invoked a higher authority than the caprices of human will. For over two thousand years Natural Law and Natural Rights were the constellations of ideas and presuppositions that fulfilled this role in the west, and exhibited far greater similarities than most commentators want to admit. Such …

Democracy in Islam

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780415425742

Collation

viii, 264 p. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

Routledge studies in political Islam ; 5

Call Number

[POL-LIB-09]