The search for human rights within an Islamic framework in Iran

Muslim World

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 469-479

  Mokhtari, Shadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 33750124665     PISSN: 00274909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.2004.00069.x     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. See discussion by Zachary Karabell, "Iran and Human Rights" in Human Rights and Comparative Foreign Policy, David Forsythe ed, (United Nations Press, 2000)
2. Ziba Mir Hosseini, "The Conservative-Reformist Conflict Over Women's Rights in Iran." International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 2002, 37-53
3. Charles Kurzman, "Introduction: Liberal Islam and its Islamic Context," Liberal Islam, A Sourcebook, Charles Kurzman ed. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998), 3
4. Genevieve Abdo, "This Aging Ayatollah Could Rewrite Iran's Future," The Washington Post, February 10, 2003, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/A42736-2003Feb7.html
5. Obiora Chinedu Okafor and Shedrack C. Agbakwa, "Reimagining International Human Rights Education in Our Time: Beyond Three Constitutive Orthodoxies," Leiden Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 3. 2001, 563-590
6. See for example, Ayatollah Yussef Sanei. "Questions on Women's Rights" on Sanei's website at www.saanei.org (visited on 03/12/03)
7. Mehrangiz Kar, "Women's Strategies in Iran from the 1979 Revolution to 1999" in Globalization, Gender and Religion: the Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Countrie, Jane Baynes and Nayereh Tohitli eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 185-190
8. See for example Tracy Higgins, "Anti-Essentialism, Relativism and Human Rights," Harvard Women's Law Journal, Vol. 19 (Spring 1996), 89
9. Kurzman, "Introduction: Liberal Islam and its Islamic Context."
10. See also Charles Kurzman, "Liberal Islam, Prospects and Challenges," Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1999
11. Kurzman, "Introduction: Liberal Islam and its Islamic Context," 16
12. Abdolkarim Soroush, "The Evolution and Devolution of Religious Knowledge" in Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook, Charles Kurzman ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 244-251
13. "Contraction and Expansion of Women's Rights: An Interview with Dr. Abdol-Karim Soroush" Zanan 2000, available at www.seraj.org/zanan.htm
14. Charles Kurzman, "Critics Within: Islamic Scholars' Protests against the Islamic State in Iran," International Journal of Politics. Culture and Society, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 2001, 346
15. Seyyed Mohsen Saidzadeh, "Fiqh and Fiqahat" UCLA Journal of Islamic & Near Eastern. Law, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002, 239
16. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, "Hujjat al-Islam Mohsen Sa'idzadeh: A contemporary Iranian Cleric on Fiqh, Women, and Civil Society" UCLA Journal of Islamic & Near Eastern Law, 231
17. Ziba Mir Hosseini, "Hojjat al-Islam Saidzade-Iran" Women Living Under Muslim Laws Dossier 21 (September 21) available at http://www.wluml.org/ english/publications/ dossiers/dossier21/hojjat-al-eslam-saidzadeh.htm (visited on 10/13/2002)
18. GhaneaBassiri, "Hojjat al-Islam Mohsen Saidzadeh . . . ," 231
19. Ayatollah Mohammad Mussavi Bojnourdi, Head of the Islamic Human Rights Commission interview conducted in December 2002
20. Hashem Aghajari "From Monkey to Man, A Call to Islamic Protestantism" speech delivered in June 2002 in Hamedan, Iran. Available at www.iranian.com/opinion/2002/ aghajari
21. Mashallah Shams ol Vaezin, Chief Editor of Jame-eh, Nshat, Asr-e Azadegan Dailies. Interview conducted August 1999
22. Hossein Mehrpour, Advisor to the President on Issues of Upholding of Constitutional Rights, Interview conducted in December 2002. See also "Foreign Ministry Spokesman Denounces Detention of Iranians By US" IRNA News Service, December 12, 2002 in which Hamid Reza Asefl, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman states that "Americans are using the September 11th incident as a vehicle for not wanting to adhere to international human rights conventions."
23. "U.N. Human Rights Team in Iran after 7 Year Absence," Reuter News Service, February 16, 2003
24. Nayereh Tohicli, "International Connections of the Iranian Woman's Movement" in Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics, Nikki R. Keddie and Rudi Matthee eds., (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002) and Shahindokht Molaverdi, Director of International Affairs for the Center for Women's Participation (of the Presidency), Interview conducted in December 2002
25. "Modir-e kol-e huquq-e beyn-ol-melal-e vezarat-e omoor-e khareje: Iran az napeyvastan be convensiyon-e raf'-e tabiz aleyh-e zanan motezarer mishavad" Bonyad Daily, February 20, 2002, and Shahindokht Molaverdi, Director of International Affairs for the Center for Women's Participation (of the Presidency), Interview conducted in December 2002
26. Ali Akbar Dareini, "Iran's Senior Clerics Say Death by Stoning Could be Stopped" Associated Press, December 29, 2002