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Islamic Law and Human Rights - The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Islamic Law and Human Rights - The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This book explores the development of the Muslim Brotherhood's
thinking on Islamic law and human rights, and argues that the
Muslim Brotherhood has exacerbated, rather than solved, tensions
between the two in Egypt. The organisation and its scholars have
drawn on hard-line juristic opinions and reinvented certain
concepts from Islamic traditions in ways that limit the scope of
various human rights, and advocate for Islamic alternatives to
international human rights. The Muslim Brotherhood's practices in
opposition and in power have been consistent with its literature.
As an opposition party, it embraced human rights language in its
struggle against an authoritarian regime, but advocated for broad
restrictions on certain rights. However, its recent and short-lived
experience in power provides evidence of its inclination to
reinforce restrictions on religious freedom, freedom of expression
and association, and the rights of religious minorities, and to
reverse previous reforms related to women's rights.The book
concludes that the peaceful management of political and religious
diversity in society cannot be realised under the Muslim
Brotherhood's model of a Shari`a state. The study advocates for the
drastic reformation of traditional Islamic law and state
impartiality towards religion, as an alternative to the development
of a Shari`a state or exclusionary secularism. This transformation
is, however, contingent upon significant long-term political and
socio-cultural change, and it is clear that successfully expanding
human rights protection in Egypt requires not the exclusion of
Islamists, but their transformation. Islamists still have a large
constituency and they are not the only actors who are ambivalent
about human rights. Meanwhile, Islamic law also appears to continue
to influence Egypt's law. The book explores the prospects for
certain constitutional and institutional measures to facilitate an
evolutionary interpretation of Islamic law, provide a baseline of
human rights and gradually integrate international human rights
into Egyptian law.
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