...and to seek ways of ameliorating the tension between the international human rights regime and Muslim legal systems. He argues that a maqasid al-shari'ah approach to Islamic law (that is, one that stresses its intention and purpose of furthering maslahah, or human welfare) reveals ample resources from within the rich and pluralistic Muslim tradition to justify the entire list of rights contained in the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

Baderin proceeds by taking the reader through every single right covered by these two conventions, and outlines arguments for the justification of each right from one or more of the following sources: relevant Islamic religious and legal...

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