The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics

by Irene Oh

Book Overview

Promoting Islam as a defender of human rights is laden with difficulties. Advocates of human rights will readily point out numerous humanitarian failures carried out in the name of Islam. In The Rights of God, Irene Oh looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue rather than a political or legal one and draws on three revered Islamic scholars to offer a broad range of perspectives that challenge our assumptions about the role of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589011848
• ISBN13: 9781589011847
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.4"