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Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: The Experience of Pakistan

Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: The Experience of Pakistan © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/187103107X253372 Religion and Human Rights 2 (2007) 189–193 www.brill.nl/rhrs Religion Human Rights Book Review Niaz A Shah, Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: Th e Experi- ence of Pakistan , Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2006. pp. ix + 262 pp. Index, ISBN 90 04 1523 7. Although a catalogue of human rights was set out in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and nations, many Asian Commentators believe that the current human rights regime is a Western construct. 1 Some Western scholars also extensively and vocif- erously reject the human rights concept of Islam. A potential area of conflict in this debate is women’s rights in Muslim states. Western perceptions about wom- en’s rights in Islam are generally negative. Th is perception is also shared by secu- larists in Muslim countries; they also believe that Islamic law is inadequate to protect women’s rights, as, they stress, human rights can only be protected in secular environments. Th is state of affairs has pushed those who defend a human rights discourse in a religious perspective to a defensive position. Notwithstand- ing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and Human Rights Brill

Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: The Experience of Pakistan

Iqbal, Khurshid
Religion and Human Rights , Volume 2 (3): 189 – Jan 1, 2007
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/187103107X253372 Religion and Human Rights 2 (2007) 189–193 www.brill.nl/rhrs Religion Human Rights Book Review Niaz A Shah, Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: Th e Experi- ence of Pakistan , Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2006. pp. ix + 262 pp. Index, ISBN 90 04 1523 7. Although a catalogue of human rights was set out in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and nations, many Asian Commentators believe that the current human rights regime is a Western construct. 1 Some Western scholars also extensively and vocif- erously reject the human rights concept of Islam. A potential area of conflict in this debate is women’s rights in Muslim states. Western perceptions about wom- en’s rights in Islam are generally negative. Th is perception is also shared by secu- larists in Muslim countries; they also believe that Islamic law is inadequate to protect women’s rights, as, they stress, human rights can only be protected in secular environments. Th is state of affairs has pushed those who defend a human rights discourse in a religious perspective to a defensive position. Notwithstand- ing

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