The Transnational Muslim World, the Foundations and Origins of Human Rights, and Their Ongoing Intersections
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Anthony Chase
To understand the Muslim world it is essential to see it in a transnational context that is informed by its heterogeneity, power contestations, and continuous change. To understand human rights' foundations and origins it is essential to grapple with its legal, political, normative, and institutional groundings, and bear in mind its ongoing reconfigurations and global impacts. Each of these tasks is illustrated by how movements for the rights of women and sexual minorities have come to impact on the transnational Muslim world and international human rights. This article explores each element within these complementary themes as a way of framing how and why the international human rights regime increasingly intersects with the Muslim world in a way that underpins challenges to authoritarian politics and the monolithic constructs of politics and society on which authoritarianism thrives.
©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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- The Transnational Muslim World, the Foundations and Origins of Human Rights, and Their Ongoing Intersections
- The Politics and Hermeneutics of Hijab in Iran: From Confinement to Choice
- Islamism, Re-Islamization and the Fashioning of Muslim Selves: Refiguring the Public Sphere
- The Islam and Human Rights Nexus: Shifting Dimensions
- Islam and the Realization of Human Rights in the Muslim World: A Reflection on Two Essential Approaches and Two Divergent Perspectives
- Islam and the European Project
- Dual Subordination: Muslim Sexuality in Secular and Religious Legal Discourse in India
- From the Field
- Contemporary Iranian Feminism: Identity, Rights and Interpretations
- Iranian Law and Women's Rights
