Towards a global alliance to compensate for colonialism and its crimes

by Muhammed Khalil Al-Mousa * The idea of ​​colonialism has historically been based on the practice of imposing political, economic, social, cultural and legal domination by a foreign state, often a Western state, over a foreign territory and its inhabitants. Colonialism, which extended from the sixteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century, was
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Sharia and Human Rights

by Ahmed E. Souaiaia* Abstract: Being an extremely dynamic determinant system that can be both formalized and popularized, Sharia has the potential to be used to promote and protect rights as well as to be an instrument of exclusion and human rights abuse. In fact, that is the role Sharia has played throughout the history
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Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights

Editorial Review by M. R. Whitehead Since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, little has changed. Human rights abuses have persisted around the globe, across cultures and societies, and despite the timeworn discussion of how to prevent them. This book pushes back against the discourse’s inertia, putting moral universalism and cultural relativism
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