⬅️ Back to 60.11.1 Islam · Related: Sharia · Women's Rights · Moral Issues
Notes on contested relationships between Islamic texts, legal traditions, state practice, and modern human-rights standards.
Pinker — a time-bounded Humanitarian Revolution comparison
Chapter 6 groups capital and corporal punishment, genital cutting, honor violence, late legal abolition of slavery, trafficking, and witchcraft prosecution as areas in which many Muslim-majority states lagged reforms seen elsewhere. Pinker’s examples mix law, prevalence, historical dates, and selected cases; they do not establish uniformity or prove that theology alone caused each practice. → claims, qualifications, and PDF pages
Belief, Speech & Civic Status
- Apostasy — Quranic, hadith, legal, and contemporary material
- Jizya — the status and taxation of non-Muslims
- Compatible with Democracy? — political authority and democratic government
- Religious Freedom in Muslim Countries — comparative restrictions
Bodily Autonomy & Punishment
- Homosexuality · Stoning and Adultery · Torture
- Slavery — scriptural and legal source material
- Historical context → Arab Slave Trade