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Islamic law and human rights : the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt by Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt);Fegiery, Moataz El is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book explores the development of the Muslim Brotherhoods thinking on Islamic law and human rights, and argues that the Muslim Brotherhood has exacerbated, rather than solved, tensions between the two in Egypt. The organisation and its scholars have drawn on hard-line juristic opinions and reinvented certain concepts from Islamic traditions in ways that limit the scope of various human rights, and advocate for Islamic alternatives to international human rights. The Muslim Brotherhoods practices in opposition and in power have been consistent with its literature. As an opposition party, it embraced human rights language in its struggle against an authoritarian regime, but advocated for broad restrictions on certain rights. However, its recent and short-lived experience in power provides evidence of its inclination to reinforce restrictions on religious freedom, freedom of expression and association, and the rights of religious minorities, and to reverse previous reforms related to womens rights. The book concludes that the peaceful management of political and religious diversity in society cannot be realised under the Muslim Brotherhoods model of a Sharia state. The study advoc

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Author

Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt);Fegiery, Moataz El

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443898447

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Islam, Science