The fifth edition provides an updated consideration of government policies on Islam and human rights activism and how they are affecting developments in several Middle Eastern countries, and features a new chapter on the resistance of human rights for sexual minorities by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Muslim states.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Assimilating Human Rights in the Middle East
• 2 Human Rights in International and Middle Eastern Systems: Sources and Contexts
• 3 Islamic Tradition and Muslim Reactions to Human Rights
• 4 Islamic Restrictions on Human Rights
• 5 Discrimination Against Women and Non-Muslims
• 6 Restrictions on the Rights of Women
• 7 Islamic Human Rights Schemes and Religious Minorities
• 8 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Muslim States Resist Human Rights for Sexual Minorities
• 9 Freedom of Religion in Islamic Human Rights Schemes
• 10 An Assessment of Islamic Human Rights Schemes
• Appendix A: Excerpts from the Iranian Constitution
• Appendix B: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
• Appendix C: 2009 Resolution on Combating Defamation of Religions
• Glossary
• Bibliography