AP/HREQ 3800 6.00
Human Rights, Islamic Thought, and Politics
This course incorporates a critical human rights approach and examines how human rights is defined by different schools of law and its implementation by Islamic governments. It explores the state of human rights in Muslim-majority countries and debates amongst Muslim minorities in liberal democracies over the compatibility of human rights claims with Islamic principles.
This course emphasis is on the study of critical human rights and social justice. This course critically examines Islamic political thoughts, institutions, and structures from classical time to the present as they relate to human rights. The course critically examines human rights of women and minorities according to the different Islamic schools of law (Hanafi, Maleki, Ahari, Hanbali, the Shite, and the Wahabis), the Islamic States, regimes, and governments. The course examines what constitutes critical human rights and how these rights are viewed within different Islamic schools of law, the 1979 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the 1990 Cairo Charter of Human Rights, in the 1991 Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights and in diverse Islamic and western cultures. The course focuses on issues regarding human rights as discussed by Muslim human rights activists, prominent Muslim scholars, and Muslim politicians. The course also analyses resent movements for justice and human rights in Muslim countries and societies.
Course credit exclusion: AP/HREQ 3800 3.00
Prerequisite: 24 credits