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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.

Mansoor al-Jamri, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

Human Rights: An Islamist Perspective

Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University

Downloadable articles and essays

Dr Shahid Athar, Clinical Associate Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine

Capital Punishment - a Faith Issue in an Islamic Perspective

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

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

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

Muslims, Modernity, and Change

Heba Raouf Ezzat, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

Women and the interpretation of Islamic sources

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

Journal of Democracy, 7.2, April 1996; section on Islam and Democracy

Robin B. Wright, Two Visions of Reformation

Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)

Human Rights in Islamic Teachings

Islamic Institute for Human Rights

List of Articles

Azam Kamguian, NTPI.org

The Liberation of Women in the Middle East

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

Anh Nga Longva, University of Bergen

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

Mohamed Mahmoud, Tufts University

Islam and Islamization in Sudan: The Islamic National Front

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.

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

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

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

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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