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Product Description: Dedicated to increasing our knowledge and awareness of the ever-growing diversity and pluralism of global society, Forum A. & A. Leysen has initiated a debate/lecture series, with a focus on Islam in today's world and in Europe in particular...read more
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9789058677396 | Leuven Univ Pr, June 30, 2010, cover price $39.50 | also contains Islam & Europe: Crises Are Challenges | About this edition: Dedicated to increasing our knowledge and awareness of the ever-growing diversity and pluralism of global society, Forum A.
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9781570752612 | Orbis Books, December 1, 1999, cover price $25.00
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9780674027763 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 31, 2008, cover price $44.00
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9780674034563 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 30, 2009, cover price $23.00
Product Description: Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Africa. But how does constitutionalism deal with the lingering effects of colonialism? And how does constitutional law deal with Islamic principles in the region? African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam seeks to answer these questions...read more
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9780812239621 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 14, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Africa.
Product Description: Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of human rights in Africa...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780812236774 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 19, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations.
Product Description: Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa clarifies what should constitute human rights, and strategies for their realization in an African context. The book argues for the local promotion of what should be universal human rights through processes of cultural transformation over time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781842770900 | Zed Books, October 11, 2002, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa clarifies what should constitute human rights, and strategies for their realization in an African context.
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9781842770917 | Zed Books, October 11, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The authors of this volume seek to contribute to the clarification of the very difficult conceptual and practical questions surrounding the legitimization and permanent protection of human rights in non-Western cultural contexts, specifically in this case in Africa.
In Islamic Family Law in a Changing World, Abdullahi A. An-Na'im explores the practice of the Shari'a, commonly known as Islamic family law. An-Na'im shows that the practical application of Shari'a principles is often modified by theological differences of interpretation, a country's particular customary practices, and state policy and law. (view table of contents)
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9781842770924 | Zed Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: In Islamic Family Law in a Changing World, Abdullahi A.
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9781842770931 | Zed Books, October 11, 2002, cover price $41.95
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9781856498432 | Zed Books, August 5, 2000, cover price $40.95
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9780815627050 | Syracuse Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $19.95
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9789051837773 | Rodopi Bv Editions, June 30, 1995, cover price $71.00
Product Description: Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780812231045 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The essays in this collection examine particular cultural and ideological traditions and reinterpretations which aim to assist in overcoming the tensions and conflicts between those traditions and current international standards of human rights.
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9780812215687 | Reprint edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness.
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9780802805065 | Eerdmans Pub Co, February 1, 1995, cover price $27.00
Product Description: This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights...read more
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9780815717966 | Brookings Inst Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries.
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9780815717959 | Brookings Inst Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries.
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9780815624844 | Syracuse Univ Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $39.95
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9780815627067 | Syracuse Univ Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $19.95
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