Title of the lecture : ‘Embracing the Other: Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri\u2018s approach to Human Rights and Democracy’<\/p>\n
In the Western world, the Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is quite well known. The reason is an extensive fatwa published in March 2010 by which he condemned terrorism and suicide bombing as unjust and evil, and thus un-Islamic.<\/p>\n
In his publications Tahir-ul-Qadri tries to show that human rights and democracy by no means are achievements of Western culture and its Jewish-Christian traditions. Instead, he insists on the fact that Muhammad and the first Muslims already established human Rights and democracy.<\/p>\n
Very briefly, the paper will present Tahir-ul-Qadri\u2019s concept of human rights and democracy, evaluate it critically, and outline some perspectives for further discussion respecting a shared understanding of human rights and democracy that might benefit from legal Western standards as well as from the moral resources of Islamic tradition.<\/p>\n
Lecture given at the 3rd International Congress of the PLURIEL network, 23-27 May 2022 in Beirut.
\nIn partnership with Saint Joseph University of Beirut and La Sagesse University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24244,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"date_tournage":"","lieu":"","nature_evenement":"","vt_type":"Conf\u00e9rence","vt_yt_views":322},"video_collection":[860],"class_list":["post-24251","videos","type-videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","video_collection-congres-de-beyrouth-2021"],"date_tournage":"","yoast_head":"\n