Tolino, Serena (21 October 2022). Slavery in Islamic Law. Challenges and Discussions in the Path to Abolition (Unpublished). In: Conference "Relativity and University of Human Rights". Université de Fribourg. 20-22 October 2022.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Usually it has been said that there are three main inequalities that are considered to be at the basis of all the problems for a reconciliation between Islamic law and human rights: inequalities between men and women, inequalities between Muslims and non-Muslims, and inequalities between free and enslaved people.
However, there is one of these three inequality systems where Muslim jurists showed their intellectual flexibility and the space that Islamic law could offer to make a reconciliation between human rights and Islam possible, and this is slavery.
In this presentation I gave a short overview of how slavery was understood in the main sources of Islamic law, namely the Qur’an and the Sunna, of how these sources have been radically reinterpreted in the modern period to serve its abolition, and proposed that this approach would work also for other systems of inequality that are seen to be intrinsic in Islamic law.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften |
UniBE Contributor: |
Tolino, Serena |
Subjects: |
200 Religion > 290 Other religions |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Serena Tolino |
Date Deposited: |
02 Feb 2023 11:35 |
Last Modified: |
02 Feb 2023 23:27 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
slavery, islamic law, abolition, Quran, Sunna |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/178078 |
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