Haidar Bagir Harvard University, Universitas Indonesia A. Introduction In both academic circles and general perception, Islam had always garnered a reputation as an exoterically law-oriented religion demanding human obedience, even fear, to a dictatorial god instead of a traditional religion catering to the psychological and spiritual needs of human being based on a love relationship between god and his subjects. ...
Syamsul Arifin and Nafik Muthohirin Center for Religion and Multiculturalism Study, University of Muhammadiyah Malang A. Introduction This article intends to examine the intersections in the discourse of Shari’ah and human rights in Indonesia. Considering the fact that these two contexts are often seen as contradictory, either as a concept or an instrument, while both actually share humanist dimensions, a ...
Ahmad Nur Fuad Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN), Sunan Ampel Surabaya, Indonesia A. Introduction The issue of Shari‘ah and human rights has long been a subject of debates among Muslim jurists and scholars. They have developed understandings of Shari‘ah as revealed law from God in relation to human rights discourse from different perspectives and proposed different opinions. Although almost all Muslim ...
Khaled Abou El Fadl UCLA School of Law USA A. Introduction Of all the moral challenges confronting Islam in the modern age, the problem of human rights is the most formidable. This is not because Islam, as compared to other religious traditions, is more prone to causing or inducing behavior that disregards or violates the rights of human beings. In ...