Book Summary
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 religion in human rights. Whereas disentangling politics and culture from religion is never easy, Oh shows that the attempt must be made in order to understand and overcome the historical obstacles that prevent genuine dialogue from taking place across religious and cultural boundaries.
Book Details
| Book Name | The Rights Of God: Islam, Human Rights, And Comparative Ethics |
| Author | Irene Oh |
| Publisher | Georgetown University Press (Nov 2007) |
| ISBN | 9781589011847 |
| Pages | 158 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1265 |
