TY - BOOK ID - 50072332 TI - Islamic law and international human rights law : searching for common ground? AU - Emon, Anver M. AU - Ellis, Mark S. AU - Glahn, Benjamin AU - International Bar Association AU - Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton, N.J.) PY - 2013 SN - 0191741108 1283712741 0191645702 0191645699 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Civil rights (Islamic law) KW - Human rights KW - International law and human rights KW - Freedom of expression (Islamic law) KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Islamic law KW - Human rights and international law KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50072332 AB - The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years. The usual starting point has been to test one system by the standards of the other, asking is Islamic law 'compatible' with international human rights standards, or vice versa. This approach quickly ends in acrimony and accusations of misunderstanding. By overlaying one set of norms on another we overlook the deeply contextual nature ofhow legal rules operate in a society, and meaningful comparison and discussion is impossible.In this volume, leading ER -