TY - BOOK ID - 110407413 TI - Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought AU - Ǧābirī, Muḥammad ʿĀbid al AU - -Centre for Arab unity studies PY - 2015 SN - 9781780766508 1780766505 9780857737557 PB - London: Tauris Academis Studies, DB - UniCat KW - Democracy - Arab countries KW - Human rights - Arab countries KW - Equality - Religious aspects - Islam KW - Islam and state KW - Arab countries - Politics and government - 1945 KW - -Islam and state KW - Democracy KW - Human rights KW - Islamic law KW - Religion and politics KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Political science KW - Politics, Practical KW - Politics and religion KW - Religion KW - Religions KW - Civil law (Islamic law) KW - Law, Arab KW - Law, Islamic KW - Law in the Qurʼan KW - Sharia (Islamic law) KW - Shariʻah (Islamic law) KW - Law, Oriental KW - Law, Semitic KW - Mosque and state KW - State and Islam KW - State, The KW - Ummah (Islam) KW - Political aspects KW - 297*35 KW - 297*35 Islam en het Westen KW - Islam en het Westen KW - Equality KW - Arab countries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:110407413 AB - Mohammad Abed al-Jabri is one of the most influential political philosophers in the contemporary Middle East. A critical rationalist in the tradition of Avincenna and Averroes, he emphasises the distinctive political and cultural heritage of the Arab world whilst rejecting the philosophical discourses that have been used to obscure its democratic deficit." "This volume introduces an English-language audience for the first time to writings that have had a major impact on Arab political thought. Wide-ranging in scope yet focused in detail, these essays interrogate concepts such as democracy, law, and human rights, looking at how they have been applied in the history of the Arab world, and show that they are determined by political and social context, not by Islamic doctrine." "Jabri argues that in order to develop democratic societies in which human rights are respected, the Arab world cannot simply rely on old texts and traditions. Nor can it import democratic models from the West. Instead, he says, a new tradition will have to be forged by today's Arabs themselves, on theirs."--Jacket. ER -