Publications [#374477] of Mohsen Kadivar

Books

1. Kadivar, M, The Rights of Mankind: Human Rights and Reformist Islam (Haqq al-Nas: Islam-e nowandish va hoquq-e bashar) (2023), pp. 532 pages, New Thoughts Press, ISBN 978-3-948894-09-2
   (last updated on 2025/06/16)

   Abstract:
   The book contains fourteen chapters in five sections: The Bases for Discussions on Islam and Human Rights; Islam and Human Rights; Freedoms of Belief, Religion, and Politics; Women’s Rights; and Other Debates in Human Rights. Its first edition was published in 2008. The translation of the critical and detailed introduction to the English version (2021) has been added to the new edition. Anything that we call ‘Islamic’ today must be reasonable, just, moral, and more functional according to the conventions of the present time. The main problem of traditional Islam is that it is living in the 21st century while breathing in the atmosphere of several centuries ago. It is possible to have a reading of the Qur’an and the Tradition of the Prophet and a methodology in ijtihad and jurisprudence that is consistent with the criteria of human rights.