Rethinking Islam and Human Rights: Practice and Knowledge Production in the Case of Hizmet (RELIGION AND GLOBAL POLITICS SERIES) - Hardcover

Keles, Ozcan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019766248X ISBN 13: 9780197662489

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In Rethinking Islam and Human Rights, leading Islam and human rights scholar Ozcan Keles examines how social movement practice unknowingly and unintentionally produces Islamic knowledge on human rights (i.e. change) in both scriptural reinterpretation and societal disposition, through a focus on the interaction between the two.

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About the Author

Ozcan Keles is a non-practicing barrister with a PhD in Human Rights from the University of Sussex. As a former participant, Ozcan is considered to be a leading expert on the Hizmet (Gülen) movement. He has lectured and published on human rights, freedom of religion, countering violent extremism claiming an Islamic justification, the Hizmet movement, and dialogue. In his effort to promote "dialogue" as a distinct academic field, he founded the peer-reviewed biannual Journal of Dialogue Studies in 2012 and founded and delivered a Master's degree of the same title from 2011 to 2015 in partnership with Keele University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019766248X
• ISBN 13: 9780197662489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256