Sociology of Rights: “I am Therefore I have Rights": Human Rights in Islam between Universalistic and Communalistic Perspectives
“I am therefore I have rights,” argues this paper. Mere existence qualifies a human being foruniversal human rights.
“I am therefore I have rights,” argues this paper. Mere existence qualifies a human being foruniversal human rights.
Turkey is the only secular Muslim country which wants to be a part of a non-
This chapter seeks to recapture the classical tradition of Islamic jurisprudence that recognizes universal human rights irrespective of religious status, gender, place, or time. It shows how the loss of this tradition has resulted in a human rights dependency on the West and a lagging record of religious freedom and democracy in
This book argues that the late Ottoman constitutional reforms (i) were carried out as a consequence of the metamorphosis of the Empire into a modern state, (ii) were considerably in favour of the bureaucratic class, (iii) were paying regard to the expectations of the Ottoman and the Western public, and most importantly (iv) had been in conformity with Islamic jurisprudence. The constitutional reforms in the late Ottoman Empire on fundamental rights and freedoms were an idiosyncratic reflection of a trans-regional political paradigm shift.