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Author Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhH4GPkKdC9djB3Kw6xjC

Title Toward an Islamic reformation : civil liberties, human rights, and international law / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim ; foreword by John Voll.

Publication Info. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.697 N157T    Check Shelf
Edition First paperback edition.
Description xvi, 253 pages ; 24 cm
Series Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.
Contents Public law in the Muslim world -- On the sources and development of Shari'a -- Toward an adequate reform methodology -- Shari'a and modern international law -- Shari'a and basic human rights.
Summary Calls for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law (sharia) in the context of modern constitutionalism, criminal justice, modern international law and basic human rights. Drawing upon the teachings and writings of the Sudanese reformer, Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, this study aims to provide the intellectual foundations for a total reinterpretation of the nature and meaning of Islamic public law.
Subject Civil rights (Islamic law)
Public law (Islamic law)
International law (Islamic law)
Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Islamic law -- Sources.
Islamic renewal.
Islam and politics.
Islamic law.
Islam and state -- Qurʼanic teaching.
86.14 Islamic law. (NL-LeOCL)169911772
Islam and state -- Qurʼanic teaching (OCoLC)fst01860715
Civil rights (Islamic law) (OCoLC)fst00862700
Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam (OCoLC)fst00963323
International law (Islamic law) (OCoLC)fst00977016
Islam and politics (OCoLC)fst00979879
Islamic law (OCoLC)fst00979949
Islamic renewal (OCoLC)fst00980053
Public law (Islamic law) (OCoLC)fst01082630
Islamismo (aspectos legais)
Direito internacional público.
Genre/Form Sources (OCoLC)fst01423900
Added Author Voll, John Obert, 1936- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhGYCpcpCkG3wp3F78DMP
ISBN 0815627068 (pbk.)
9780815627067 (pbk.)
0815624840 (hbk.)
9780815624844 (hbk.)
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