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Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University
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Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA)
Communique concerning the issue of the Islamic dress code (Hijab) in France, Islamonline website
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Hossam Bahgat
Explaining Egypt's Targeting of Gays , Middle East Report Online, July 23, 2001
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Azza Basruddin
Are Islam and Human Rights Compatible? Revisiting Muslim Women's Rights
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Asghar Ali Engineer, Institute for Islamic Studies, Mumbai, India
Shari'ah Law, Civil Society, and Human Rights
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Dr. Lois Lamya' al Faruqi
Islamic Traditions and the Feminist Movement: Confrontation or Cooperation?
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Inam-ul-Haq
Race Relations: An Islamic Perspective
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Mansoor Hekmat
Islam, Children's Rights, and the Hijab-gate of Rah-e-Kargar: In Defence of the Prohibition of the Islamic Veil for Children
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Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society
A Declaration of the Rights of Women in Islamic Societies
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Ali Mohammad Bhat
Human Rights in Islam
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Azam Kamguian, NTPI.org
The Liberation of Women in the Middle East
"Crimes of Honour": Women's Tragedy Under Islam and Tribal Customs
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Muqtedar Khan, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
The Condition of Muslim Women: What Can We do?
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Anh Nga Longva, University of Bergen
The apostasy law in the age of universal human rights and citizenship: Some legal and political implications
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Hadayai Majeed, The Milli Gazette
Muslim Women: The Gatekeepers of Our Own Oppression
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Chibli Mallat, Jean Monnet Chair of European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of the European Union at the University of Saint Joseph, Beirut
Introduction: Variations on State Identity and Community Rights". in Chibli Mallat and Jane Connors, editors, Islamic Family Law, London; Boston : Graham & Trotman, c1990.
Introduction: On Islam and Democracy. In Chibli Mallat, editor, Islamic Public Law: Classical and Contemporary studies,
London ; Boston : Graham & Trotman, 1993.
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S. Parvez Manzoor, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
Freedom of Expression and Islam
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Ebrahim Moosa, Associate Research Professor, Department of Religion, and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks, Duke University, North Carolina
The Poetics and Politics of Law After Empire: Reading Women's Rights in the Contestations of Law
. UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, V. 1, N. 1, Fall/Winter 2001-2002
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Lily Zakiyah Munir, Director,
Director of the Center for Pesantren and Democracy Studies, Jombang, Indonesia
Islam, Gender, and Formal Shari'a in Indonesia
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Makau Mutua, Professor of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, Director, Human Rights Center SUNY Buffalo
The African Human Rights System: A Critical Evaluation, 2000, Background paper for UNDP Human Development Report
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National Council Resistance of Iran, Foreign Affairs Committee
Women, Islam and Equality (html version)
Women, Islam and Equality (PDF version)
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Abdelaziz Sachedina, University of Virginia
Woman Half the Man? Crisis of Male Epistemology in Islamic Jurisprudence
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William Schabas, Professor and chair of the department of law at the University of Quebec, Montreal.
Islam and the Death Penalty.
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Rhona K.M. Smith and Carolyn McIntosh, Robert Gordon University
Scotland
Freedom of Religion:
The Evolution of a Human Right. Derechos.org Human Rights Articles, Series I: Civil and Political Rights
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Azim Tamimi, Director, Institute of Islamic Political Thought, London
Human Rights in Islam
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