About the Editor: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. Prior to joining Emory in 1995, he was Executive Director of Human Rights Watch/Africa. In February 2009, An-Na`im received an Honorary Doctorate from the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven, Leuven), Belgium. He also serves as Global Legal Scholar at the Law School, University of Warwick, UK (until August 2010); and Extraordinary Professor at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (until December 2010). An-Na`im has published more than 60 articles and book chapters on human rights, constitutionalism, Islamic law and politics. As a 2009 Carnegie Scholar, he is working on a project entitled, “Enhancing Citizenship: American Muslims and American Secularism,” in which he is applying the thesis presented in his 2008 book, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a.  This book is available for download free of charge in eight languages of Islamic societies at (http://sharia.law.emory.edu).

Selected Publications

• "A Theory of Islam, State and Society" in New Directions in Islamic Thought: Exploring Reform and Muslim Tradition 
• African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 
• "An Akan Perspective on Human Rights" in Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, The Brookings Institution, 1990
• "Central Asia and the Caucasus" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• "Civil Rights in the Islamic Constitutional Traditions: Shared Ideals and Divergent Regimes," The John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 25 (1992): 267-293
• "Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue" in Time and History: The Variety of Cultures 
• Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa, Zed Books, 2002
• "Cultural Transformation and Normative Consensus on the Best Interest of the Child," International Journal of Law and the Family, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1994): 62-81
• "East and Central Africa" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• "Global Citizenship and Human Rights: From Muslims in Europe to European Muslims" in Religious Pluralism and Human Rights in Europe: Where to Draw the Line? 
• "Globalization and Jurisprudence: An Islamic Perspective," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 54, No. Special Edition: 25-51 
• "Horn of Africa" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• Human Rights and Religious Values: An Uneasy Relationship?, Rodopi, 1995
• "Human Rights and the Imperative of Cross-Cultural Dialogue: An Islamic Perspective" 
• Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, The Brookings Institution, 1990
• "Human Rights in the Arab World: A Regional Perspective," Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 23 (2001): 701-732
• "Human Rights in the Muslim World: Socio-Political Conditions and Scriptural Imperatives - A Preliminary Inquiry," Harvard Human Rights Journal, Vol. 3 (1990): 13-52
• Inter-religious Marriages Among Muslims: Negotiating Religious and Social Identity in Family and Community, Global Media Publications, 2005 
• "Interreligious Marriage: Three Muslim Case Studies," March 28, 2003
• "Introduction" in Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, The Brookings Institution, 1990
• "Introduction" in Inter-religious Marriages Among Muslims: Negotiating Religious and Social Identity in Family and Community, Global Media Publications, 2005 
• "Introduction" in Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa, Zed Books, 2002
• "Introduction" in Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa, Zed Books, 2002
• "Introduction" in Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa, Orbis Books, 1999
• Islam and Human Rights: Advocacy for Social Change in Local Contexts, Global Media Publications, 2006 
• Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a, Harvard University Press, 2008 
• "Islamic Ambivalence to Political Violence: Islamic Law and International Terrorism," German Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 31 (1988): 307-336
• Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• "Islamic Foundations of Religious Human Rights" in Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996
• "Middle East" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• Misrepresenting Islam
• "North Africa" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• "Problems of Universal Cultural Legitimacy for Human Rights" in Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, The Brookings Institution, 1990
• Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa, Orbis Books, 1999
• "Q & A with the Experts: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im"
• "Religion and Global Civil Society: Inherent Incompatibility of Synergy and Interdependence?" in Global Civil Society
• "Shari'a and Islamic Family Law: Transition and Transformation" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• "Shari'a in the Secular State: A Paradox of Separation and Conflation" in The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a 
• "South Asia" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• "Southeast Asia" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, , 2002
• "Southern Africa" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002
• "State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religious and Customary Law" in Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives, 1994
• "The 'Law of Morality' of Human Rights in Islamic Societies," October 26, 2007
• "The Contingent Universality of Human Rights: The Case of Freedom of Expression in African and Islamic Contexts," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 11 (1997): 29-66
• "The Future of Shari'a: Secularism from an Islamic Perspective," January 29, 2007
• "The Future of Shari'ah and the Debate in Northern Nigeria" in Comparative Perspectives on Shari'ah in Nigeria  
• "The Incremental Success of African Constitutionalism and the Challenges of Consolidation and Maturity" in Derechos Humanos, Relaciones Internacionales y Globalizacion 
• "The Interdependence of Religion, Secularism, and Human Rights," Common Knowledge, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2005): 56-80 
• "The Politics of Religion and Morality of Globalization" in Religion and Global Civil Society, 2005 
• "Toward an Islamic Hermeneutics for Human Rights" in Human Rights and Religious Values: An Uneasy Relationship?, Rodopi, 1995
• Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law, Syracuse University Press, 1990
• "Universality of Human Rights: An Islamic Perspective" in Japan and International Law: Past, Present and Future
• "West Africa" in Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book, Zed Books, 2002

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