Paradoxical normativities in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia: Islamic law and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

Brunei and Malaysia are promoting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration but enforce a brand of Islamic law that systematically violates it. The paradoxical ways in which policymakers are navigating between the two, and the empirical realities of Islamic governance, impede the project of a transdoctrina...

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Main Author: Müller, Dominik M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press 2016
In: Asian survey
Year: 2016, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 415-441
Further subjects:B Brunei
B Human rights
B Islamic law
B Religion
B Association of Southeast Asian Nations
B Politics
B Problem
B Malaysia
B Governance
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Summary:Brunei and Malaysia are promoting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration but enforce a brand of Islamic law that systematically violates it. The paradoxical ways in which policymakers are navigating between the two, and the empirical realities of Islamic governance, impede the project of a transdoctrinal justification of human rights.
ISSN:1533-838X
Contains:In: Asian survey