In Search of Common Ground: Human Rights Law and Muslim Legal Tradition

Cooperation

Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies (CIMELS), Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Gender Studies, Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF/SSEG), and URPP Asia and Europe

Location

KOL G-217, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich

Description

The encounter between Islam and human rights has been the subject of impassioned and tangled debate. In this talk, Ziba Mir-Hosseini shall explore how the political and hermeneutical challenges faced by advocates of human rights in Muslim contexts, and the terms of the debate between Muslim legal tradition and international human rights law are being changed.