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Freedom of Speech and Islam

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Freedom of Speech and Islam book

Freedom of Speech and Islam

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Freedom of Speech and Islam book

Edited ByErich Kolig
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583174
Pages 276 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315583174
SubjectsArea Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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Kolig, E. (Ed.). (2014). Freedom of Speech and Islam. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583174

Freedom of speech and expression is considered in the West a high public good and an important social value, underpinned by legislative and ethical norms. Its importance is not shared to the same extent by conservative and devout Muslims, who read Islamic doctrines in ways seemingly incompatible with Western notions of freedom of speech. Since the Salman Rushdie affair in the 1980s there has been growing recognition in the West that its cherished value of free speech and associated freedoms relating to arts, the press and media, literature, academia, critical satire etc. episodically clash with conservative Islamic values that limit this freedom for the sake of holding religious issues sacrosanct. Recent controversies - such as the Danish cartoons, the Charlie Hebdo affair, Quran burnings, and the internet film ’The Innocence of Muslims’ which have stirred violent reactions in the Muslim world - have made the West aware of the fact that Muslims’ religious sensitivities have to be taken into account in exercising traditional Western freedoms of speech. Featuring experts across a spectrum of fields within Islamic studies, Freedom of Speech and Islam considers Islamic concepts of blasphemy, apostasy and heresy and their applicability in the modern world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction: This Book, Its Mission and Its Essays

ByErich Kolig

chapter 2|24 pages

Why Is Freedom of Speech a Problem for So Many Muslims?

ByChristopher J. van der Krogt

chapter 3|18 pages

Balancing Freedom of Speech and the Rights of Muslim Minority Groups in the Australian Context

chapter 4|62 pages

Muslim Sensitivities and the West

ByErich Kolig

chapter 5|18 pages

5The Rushdie Affair: Cultures at Cross Purposes

ByWilliam Shepard

chapter 6|20 pages

Being an Unbeliever and the Power of Fatwa in Iran

ByNegar Partow

chapter 7|24 pages

Free Speech: Creating the ‘Us and Them’ Debate

ByNahid Afrose Kabir

chapter 8|22 pages

The Instrumental Accusation of Islamophobia and Heresy as a Strategy

chapter 9|16 pages

Parameters of Teaching Islam ‘Freely’

ByKatharina Völker
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