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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

Hossam Bahgat

Explaining Egypt's Targeting of Gays , Middle East Report Online, July 23, 2001

Azza Basruddin

Are Islam and Human Rights Compatible? Revisiting Muslim Women's Rights

Asghar Ali Engineer, Institute for Islamic Studies, Mumbai, India

Shari'ah Law, Civil Society, and Human Rights

Dr. Lois Lamya' al Faruqi

Islamic Traditions and the Feminist Movement: Confrontation or Cooperation?

Inam-ul-Haq

Race Relations: An Islamic Perspective

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

Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society

A Declaration of the Rights of Women in Islamic Societies

Ali Mohammad Bhat

Human Rights in Islam

Azam Kamguian, NTPI.org

The Liberation of Women in the Middle East

"Crimes of Honour": Women's Tragedy Under Islam and Tribal Customs

Muqtedar Khan, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

The Condition of Muslim Women: What Can We do?

Anh Nga Longva, University of Bergen

The apostasy law in the age of universal human rights and citizenship: Some legal and political implications

Hadayai Majeed, The Milli Gazette

Muslim Women: The Gatekeepers of Our Own Oppression

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.

S. Parvez Manzoor, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

Freedom of Expression and Islam

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

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

National Council Resistance of Iran, Foreign Affairs Committee

Women, Islam and Equality (html version)

Women, Islam and Equality (PDF version)

Abdelaziz Sachedina, University of Virginia

Woman Half the Man? Crisis of Male Epistemology in Islamic Jurisprudence

William Schabas, Professor and chair of the department of law at the University of Quebec, Montreal.

Islam and the Death Penalty.

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

Azim Tamimi, Director, Institute of Islamic Political Thought, London

Human Rights in Islam

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