TY - BOOK AU - Mayer,Ann Elizabeth TI - Islam and human rights: tradition and politics SN - 9780813344676 (pbk.) AV - KB 2460 .M39 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Boulder, Colo. PB - Westview Press KW - Human rights KW - Islamic countries KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index; 1. Assimilating human rights in the Middle East -- 2. Human rights in international and Middle Eastern systems : sources and contexts -- 3. Islamic tradition and Muslim reactions to human rights -- 4. Islamic restrictions on human rights -- 5. Discrimination against women and non-Muslims -- 6. Restrictions on the rights of women -- 7. Islamic human rights schemes and religious minorities -- 8. The organization of the Islamic cooperation and Muslim states resist human rights for sexual minorities -- 9. Freedom of religion in Islamic human rights schemes -- 10. An assessment of Islamic human rights schemes -- Appendix A: Excerpts from the Iranian constitution -- Appendix B: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam -- Appendix C: 2009 resolution on combating defamation of religions ER -