The Authenticity Issue in the Interpretation of Human Rights:Critical Review of Mohammed Ghazali's Islamic View on UDHR
Journal Title: The Journal of Human Rights - Year 2011, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
The contemporary debates, among religious thinkers, over the relationship between religion and politics necessarily involve the relationship between right and obligation. Mohammed Ghazali is among those thinkers who believe in the priority of right over obligation, contributing authenticity to the Islamic rather than western interpretations of Human rights. His failure in the mission is clear. He is much more concerned with showing the compatibility Islamic teachings with human rights principles than with the relationship of these principles with Islamic teachings. Apparently he tries to show the “authenticity”, of Islamic vis-à-vis Western readings of human rights, however in practice he bases his arguments on the “authenticity” of the western reading of human rights putting his perceived Islam inferior to Western principles of human rights. چکیده متفکران دینی که در دوران معاصر به نسبت دین و سیاست می‌پردازند، ناگزیر از تبیین نسبت «حق» و «تکلیف» شهروندان هستند. محمد غزالی از جمله متفکرانی است که با تفسیری حق‌محور به سراغ دلالت‌های سیاسی آموزه‌های دینی می‌رود و در این میان، اصالت را به تفسیر اسلامی از حقوق بشر می‌دهد و نه تفاسیر غربی آن. با این حال، در دغدغه خود برای اصیل معرفی‌کردن آموزه دینی در این زمینه ناکام می‌ماند. او که بیش از آنکه دغدغه نسبت‌سنجی اصول حقوق بشر با آموزه‌های اسلامی را داشته باشد، دل‌آشوب نشان دادن انطباق آموزه‌های اسلامی با این اصول است و به ظاهر اگرچه در تلاش خود برای نشان دادن «اصالت» خوانش اسلام‌گرایانه در مقابل خوانش غربی از حقوق بشر است، در عملْ اصول غربیِ حقوق بشر را «اصل» گرفته و اسلامِ منظورِ نظر خویش را در ذیل آن و چونان ابزار توجیه‌گری برای آن معرفی می‌نماید.
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Morteza Bahrani, Seyed Mohsen Alavipour
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