Sunday, February 01, 2015

Academic Elham Manea - “Islamic Law in the West: The Essentialists"

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per wiki: Elham Manea (PD Dr. ) is of dual nationalities, Yemeni and Swiss. Manea has published academic and non fiction books in English, German, and Arabic in addition to two novels in Arabic - Echo (2005 Saqi Books Beirut) and Sins (2008 Saqi Books Beirut).[1] [2]

Her latest academic publication was a book entitled The Arab State and Women’s Rights: The Trap of Authoritarian Governance (2011), London: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern.[3]

Elham Manea is the author of the non fiction book Ich will nicht Schweigen: Der Islam, Der Westen und die Menschenrechte (2009), Freiburg: Herder Verlag.[4] The book is based on a series she wrote in Arabic about humanistic Islam and women’s rights.
This video is about her most recent work..."Islamic Law in the West: the Essentialists. Based on her research in the Middle East and Britain, she criticizes a paradigm of thinking with four specific features, the Essentialist Paradigm, which calls for introducing Islamic law in Western legal systems ignoring citizen/human/women rights and political consequences.