This book contains a main study and comments on it from various schools of thought, thus embodying the philosophy of the Human Rights Debate Notebooks, which are keen to address problematic human rights issues from multiple perspectives and angles.
As for the problematic issue, it is the issue of the roots of human rights in Islamic history, and the relationship between this and privacy and universality, which the Iraqi researcher Dr. Ghanem Jawad addresses through presentation and documentation, during which he collected 15 important documents that have never been published and analyzed together.
The Center asked a number of researchers and thinkers specialized in Islamic studies to comment on the study and its documents.
Three thinkers representing three diverse schools of thought in Islamic studies responded to the Cairo Center’s invitation.
The first is Salah Al-Jurshi (Tunisia) who belongs to the “Progressive Islamists” school, the second is Dr. Al-Baqir Al-Afif (Sudan) who belongs to the “Republican Brotherhood” school, and the third is the bird forcibly exiled from his homeland, Egypt, Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid, who belongs to the school of historical interpretation.
The book as a whole is a new additional contribution presented by the Cairo Center to the reader, within the framework of its main intellectual project, in deriving human rights from Arab culture.
