Amazon.com description: Product Description: [Lawyers Committee for Human Rights]. Islam & Justice, Debating the Future of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa. New York, The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1997. 23cm x 15.2cm. VI, 178 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [Lawyers Committee for Human Rights]. Includes for Example: Coninuing conflicts between entrenched authoritarian governments and political movements inspired by Islam/ devastating impact on respect for human rights in the Middle East and North Africa/ Competition and contention between opposing political ideologies/ must avoid the degeneration of this contest into violence, polarization and social disintegration/ international human rights standards offer the best available framework for the conduct of all parties to the conflicts in the contemporary Middle East/ May 1996, a three-day meeting in Beaconsfield, England of a group of 23 distinguished experts/ debating the relevance of basic international human rights standard to protagonists of differing views in the controversy engendered by the emergence of political Islam/ the potential areas of common understanding between Islamists and oters concerned with the promotion of international human rights in the region/ Islamized legal systems and administration of justice/ viewpoints of diverse country situations/ tensions within the dialogue on human rights/ bringing about change in Islamic Law/ the right to fair trial in an international context/ minimum guarantees for human rights as a basis for political community/ human rights enforcement in the Arab world etc.