Islam and Human Rights
a Critique of Contemporary Muslim Approaches
The basic objective of this research is note the errors that are committed by Muslims in their argument of human rights in Islam or in other words to explore possible means of formulation of a more coherent alternative expression of values to point out the errors committed by Muslims in their attempt to argue the case of human rights in Islam in the hope that efforts and resources expended in that direction can be derived to a more agreeable end; which is the exploration of possible means of formulating a more coherent alternative expression of values to the so-called "Islamic human rights."
A considerable amount of literature has been produced on these issues by competent Muslim thinkers and scholars but because they either
purposefully or 2) inadvertently chose to follow almost the same style as explored in the Western tradition in the advancement of their case however, they have run into theoretical as well as doctrinal problems. As a consequence they have either completely avoided tackling important issues like polygamy, apostasy (riddah) and the legal punishments prescribed in the Qur'an and Sunnah (hudud) in the light of the current propagation of the doctrine of human rights, which they cannot adequately defend or justify while following Western presuppositions; or on the contrary, they have dismissed such issues altogether as a pre-modern and therefore obsolete; or have actually combined culture with doctrine and ended up providing inaccurate positions which they attribute to the Shari'ah for example in the case of restricting women's rights and freedoms.
Introduction
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