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Faith And The Attorney-Client Relationship: Muslim Perspective, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Faith And The Attorney-Client Relationship: Muslim Perspective, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Law Faculty Publications
Three significant factors have converged to contribute significantly to the state of spiritual impoverishment, fragmentation, and work-place alienation experienced by professional people of faith in this country. They are: the emergence of material secularism as the dominant ideology, the uncritical acceptance of technological reductionism, and the over-broad interpretation of the public/private distinction. I shall discuss these factors from a spiritual perspective generally, and an Islamic one specifically. I shall also present an Islamic point of view on of the attorney-client relationship, critique Professor Allegretti's proposal, and mention some of the problems that lawyers of faith must consider in their daily …
Legal Reform: Reviewing Human Rights In The Muslim World, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Legal Reform: Reviewing Human Rights In The Muslim World, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Law Faculty Publications
Muslims take spirituality very seriously and would be willing to put up with a great deal of pain and suffering rather than abandon this fundamental disposition. Additionally, many Muslims have an intuitive belief that it is not religion which is at fault, but those in power. Consequently, they continue to search for the spiritually acceptable solution. In the meantime, Western NGOs offer no more than lightly-modified Western secular solutions, sometimes thinly disguised with religious rhetoric.
Family Planning And Islamic Jurisprudence, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Family Planning And Islamic Jurisprudence, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Law Faculty Publications
In this speech, the author provides a brief overview of Islamic jurisprudence on the subject matter and does not recommend any particular position with respect to the debate on family planning. The author, however, wishes to emphasize to the reader the importance of correctly analyzing arguments and factors involved in the particular situation under consideration, in light of all relevant communal as well as individual factors. The author also wishes to emphasize the importance of formulating all such analysis free from all forms of compulsion and coercion, whether conscious or subconscious, individual or organized, including that of targeted advertising campaigns. …
Islamic Constitutionalism And The Concept Of Democracy, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Islamic Constitutionalism And The Concept Of Democracy, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Law Faculty Publications
This article will discuss select, basic principles of Islamic law relating to democratic governance, pointing out in the process certain areas of disagreement surrounding them in the literature and the grounds for such disagreements. Part II of this article presents a brief overview of Islamic law in order to provide a foundation for later discussion. The article then assesses the Islamic system of government in light of two major principles of Western democracies. They are (1) the principle that the will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of the government (Principle A) and (2) the principle …