Bibliograph

Religious freedom in Islam, the fate of a universal human right in the Muslim world today, Daniel Philpott

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Religious freedom in Islam, the fate of a universal human right in the Muslim world today, Daniel Philpott

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Religious freedom in Islam

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

1043986732

Responsibility statement

Daniel Philpott

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

the fate of a universal human right in the Muslim world today

Summary

Is Islam hospitable to religious freedom? The question is at the heart of a public controversy over Islam that has raged in the West over the past decade-and-a-half. Religious freedom is important because it promotes democracy and peace and reduces ills like civil war, terrorism, and violence. Religious freedom also is simply a matter of justice-not an exclusively Western principle but rather a universal human right rooted in human nature. The heart of the text confronts the question of Islam and religious freedom through an empirical examination of Muslim-majority countries. From a satellite view, looking at these countries in the aggregate, the work finds that the Muslim world is far less free than the rest of the world.--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

specialized

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