TY - BOOK ID - 77908738 TI - The rights of God PY - 2007 SN - 1589014634 1435627563 9781435627567 9781589014633 9781589011854 9781589011847 1589011856 1589011848 PB - Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press DB - UniCat KW - Islam and humanism. KW - Human rights KW - Islam and civil society. KW - Humanism KW - Civil society and Islam KW - Civil society KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77908738 AB - 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.The theoretical shift from the conception of morality based in natural duty and law to one of rights has created tensions that hinder ER -