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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.