Javaid Rehman / Susan C. Breau (eds.)

Religion, Human Rights and International Law: A Critical Examination of Islamic State Practices

Herausgeber: Rehman, Javaid; Breau, Susan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Freedom of religion is a subject, which has throughout human history been a source of profound disagreements and conflict. In the modern era, religious-based intolerance continues to provide lacerative and tormenting concern to the possibility of congenial human relationships. As the present study examines, religions have been relied upon to perpetuate discrimination and inequalities, and to victimise minorities to the point of forcible assimilation and genocide. The study provides an overview of the complexities inherent in the freedom of religion within international law and an analysis of the cultural-religious relativist debate in contemporary human rights law. As many of the chapters examine, Islamic State practices have been a major source of concern. In the backdrop of the events of 11 September 2001, a considerable focus of this volume is upon the Muslim world, either through the emergent State practices and existing constitutional structures within Muslim majority States or through Islamic diasporic communities resident in Europe and North-America.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Religion, Secular B Nr.6
• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 163mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1184g
• ISBN-13: 9789004158269
• ISBN-10: 900415826X
• Artikelnr.: 22904657

Autorenporträt

Javaid Rehman is a Professor of International Law and Director of Research, Brunel Law School, Brunel University, London. His specialist research interests include Islamic Law, minority rights and international terrorism. He is a member of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on International Law and Islamic Law and is a member of the UK branch of the ILA. Susan C. Breau is a Reader in Law at the School of Law, University of Surrey. She was formerly Dorset Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London. She was awarded her doctorate in International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2003 for her research into humanitarian intervention. Her research interests are in the areas of the law of armed conflict, international organizations law and the International Protection of Human Rights. She is a member of the Bar of Ontario and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada.