Abstract
In the first interview in this chapter, Dr. Tahir Mahmood discusses how human rights and good governance were articulated within Islamic legal discourses long before they became standard in the West. He also stresses the need to counter ignorance within the global Muslim community regarding their rights and responsibilities as described within the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Thereafter, he discusses different present-day examples of the role that Islam occupies in states with Muslim minorities. Using his native India as an example, he explores the implications of a state that does not recognize any official religion but does allow religious communities to resolve their private affairs according to their own religious law.
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Abul ‘Ala Maududi, Huquq al- Zawjayn (Lahore: n.p, 1934).
For this period, see Stanford Shaw, Between Old and New, The Ottoman State Under Sultan Selim 1789–1807 ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971 ).
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Halil Inalcik, “The Nature of Traditional Society: Turkey,” in Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey (eds) Robert E. Ward and Dankwart A. Rustow ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964 ), 13–14.
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Rauf, I.F.A. (2015). Human Rights and Islamic Governance. In: Defining Islamic Statehood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137446824_9
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