Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Assimilating human rights in the Middle East -- 2. Human rights in international and Middle Eastern systems: sources and contexts -- 3. Islamic tradition and Muslim reactions to human rights -- 4. Islamic restrictions on human rights -- 5. Discrimination against women and non-Muslims -- 6. Restrictions on the rights of women -- 7. Islamic human rights schemes and religious minorities -- 8. The organization of the Islamic cooperation and Muslim states resist human rights for sexual minorities -- 9. Freedom of religion in Islamic human rights schemes -- 10. An assessment of Islamic human rights schemes -- Appendix A: Excerpts from the Iranian constitution -- Appendix B: The Cairo declaration on human rights in Islam -- Appendix C: 2009 resolution on combating defamation of religions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
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