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Rights of Non-Muslims in the Middle East

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dc.contributor.author Salamey, Imad
dc.contributor.author Abouaoun, Elie
dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-22T11:43:02Z
dc.date.available 2024-02-22T11:43:02Z
dc.date.copyright 2017 en_US
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10725/15320
dc.description.abstract The early centuries of Islam were characterized—in theory and often in practice—by the relatively enlightened treatment of major religious minorities, a practice later institutionalized in large multiethnic, multiconfessional empires under Muslim rule. Yet, developments in the modern Muslim world have failed to keep pace with contemporary understandings of minority rights and freedom of worship. Today, non-Muslims across the Middle East are subject to political, economic, and social discrimination, as well as the very real dangers of outright repression and violence. This phenomenon is driven by both the predominant emphasis on conservative readings of religious law and events on the ground as well as social tensions released by the so-called Arab Spring protests. Together, limitations on political and social expression under the region’s many autocrats, who have been wary of alienating the majority of Muslims, as well as widespread acceptance of restrictive readings of sharia law, have made the notion of equality between Muslims and non-Muslims a distant prospect at best.
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Atlantic Council en_US
dc.subject Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam en_US
dc.title Rights of Non-Muslims in the Middle East en_US
dc.type Book / Chapter of a Book en_US
dc.author.school SAS en_US
dc.author.idnumber 200603434 en_US
dc.author.department Social and Education Sciences en_US
dc.publication.place Washington en_US
dc.identifier.ctation Salamey, I., & Abouaoun, E. (2017). Rights of Non-Muslims in the Middle East. In Islam and Human Rights: Key Issues for Our Times (pp. 20-26). Atlantic Council en_US
dc.author.email imad.salamey@lau.edu.lb en_US
dc.chapter.title Rights of Non-Muslims in the Middle East en_US
dc.identifier.tou http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php en_US
dc.identifier.url https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep03717.7.pdf en_US
dc.author.affiliation Lebanese American University en_US
dc.orcid.id2 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9642-0752 en_US


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