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Salbiah Ahmad
The freedom of religion impasse and powers of the High Court, First published in INSAF, the journal of the Malaysian Bar at (2003) XXXII No. 3, 60.
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Mansoor al-Jamri, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
Human Rights: An Islamist Perspective
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Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University
Downloadable articles and essays
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Dr Shahid Athar, Clinical Associate Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
Capital Punishment - a Faith Issue in an Islamic Perspective
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Helen Bielefeldt and Mohammad Saeed Bahamanpour
The politics of social justice: religion versus human rights?
Religion, Secularism and Human Rights, Responses to Heiner Bielefeldt and Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour
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Khaled Abou El Fadl , Law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
Islam and the Theology of Power, Middle East Report 221, Winter 2001
The Place of Tolerance in Islam: On reading the Qur'an and misreading it
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Asghar Ali Engineer, Institute for Islamic Studies, Mumbai, India
Muslims, Modernity, and Change
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Heba Raouf Ezzat, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue
Women and the interpretation of Islamic sources
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Riffat Hassan, Department of Religious Studies, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
Are Human Rights Compatible with Islam? The Issue of the Rights of Women in Muslim Communities
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Journal of Democracy, 7.2, April 1996; section on Islam and Democracy
Robin B. Wright, Two Visions of Reformation
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Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
Human Rights in Islamic Teachings
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Islamic Institute for Human Rights
List of Articles
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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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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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Mohamed Mahmoud, Tufts University
Islam and Islamization in Sudan: The Islamic National Front
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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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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
Islam, gender and equal rights for women, The Jakarta Post -- Wednesday, December 10, 2002, p. 6
Has sharia brought justice?, The Jakarta Post -- Monday, March 17, 2003, p. 6
Misunderstanding of polygamy lingers in Islam, The Jakarta Post -- Saturday, May 24, 2003, p. 7
Querying Polygamy Award, The Jakarta Post -- Saturday, August 2, 2003, p. 6
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Abdelaziz Sachedina, University of Virginia
Woman Half the Man? Crisis of Male Epistemology in Islamic Jurisprudence
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Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, United Bank for Africa PLC
Democracy, Human Rights and Islam: Theory, Epistemology and the Quest for Synthesis, Text of a paper presented at an international conference on "Shari’ah Penal and Family Law in Nigeria and in the Muslim World: A Rights Based Approach" organized by the International Human Rights Law Group and held at Rockview Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria, August 5-7, 2003
Shariacracy in Nigeria: The Intellectual Roots of Islamist Discourse
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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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