Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.

Preliminary Material / Kamran Hashemi -- Introduction / Kamran Hashemi -- Introductory Remarks / Kamran Hashemi -- Chapter One. Muslim Legal Traditions of Apostasy and Relevant Human Rights Law / Kamran Hashemi -- Chapter Two. Current Application of Traditional Rules of Conversion and Proselytizing / Kamran Hashemi -- Chapter Three. Current Application of Traditional Rules of Blasphemy (Sabb) / Kamran Hashemi -- Chapter Four. Current Application of Traditional Rules of Heresy / Kamran Hashemi -- Concluding Remarks / Kamran Hashemi -- Introductory Remarks / Kamran Hashemi -- Chapter Five. Muslim Legal Traditions of Dhimmah and Relevant Human Rights Law / Kamran Hashemi -- Chapter Six. Current Application of Public Aspects of Dhimmah / Kamran Hashemi -- Chapter Seven. Current Application of Personal Aspects of Dhimmah / Kamran Hashemi -- Concluding Remarks / Kamran Hashemi -- Introductory Remarks / Kamran Hashemi -- Chapter Eight. Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Muslim States / Kamran Hashemi -- Concluding Remarks / Kamran Hashemi -- Conclusion / Kamran Hashemi -- Selected Bibliography / Kamran Hashemi -- Index / Kamran Hashemi.

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This book offers an exploration of aspects of the subject, Islam and Human Rights, which is the focus of considerable scholarship in recent years predominantly from Western scholars. Thus it is interesting and important to have the field addressed from a non -Western perspective and by an Iranian scholar. The study draws on Persian language literature that addresses both theological and legal dimensions of the theme. The work is also distinctive in that it tackles three areas that have been largely ignored in the literature. It undertakes a comparative study of the laws of several Muslim States with respect to religious freedom, minorities and the rights of the child. The study offers an optimistic vision of the fundamental compatibility of Islam and international human rights standards.