00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000001862 20200508201635 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-275-98045-6 010-0520001862 eng 201.723 201.723/RAH/H Muddathir abdu Al Rahim Human Rights and The World's Major Religions : The Islamic Traditions 06870 Westport, London Cambridge University Press 2005 xi, 255p.; 24cm. 24cm. Bibliography p. 225-255 Covering a wide span of history this set includes volumes on Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. This book is the third of a series produced by Praeger Publishers titled Human Rights and the World?s Major Religions. The purpose of the series is to define the meaning of human rights in the specific religious tradition and survey its breadth and development across time and cultures. This volume is devoted to Islam. In an introductory chapter, the author makes a case for the inherent link between Islam and human rights His coverage of the religious meaning of Islam crosses centuries and is uniquely clear in its presentment. The author?s long experience in studying the interplay of religion and the political development of Islamic nation-states is a valued strength of this work. Readers will find that he is self-critical of the tradition. The author is widely recognized as both a theorist and practitioner in the Islamic tradition. A son of Sudan who took degrees at the University of London and the University of Nottingham and earned his PhD in economics and the social sciences at the University of Manchester. 1. Religion 2. Islam 3. Human right