For episode 144, Daniel is joined by renowned Sudanese Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im for a wide-ranging conversation on human rights, spirituality, and inter-cultural justice. Professor An-Na’im is an internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights, specifically from cross-cultural perspectives, and teaches courses in international law, comparative law, human rights, and Islamic law.

With intensifying human rights violations around the world, and longstanding failures from international bodies to curtail state and corporate impunity, how do we understand protecting human rights today? Abdullahi brings decades of experience as an activist, scholar and jurist to the table, drawing on cross-cultural prisms and critical religious thought.

Mentions

The works of Ustaz Mahmoud Taha:

• Brief Bio of Ustaz Mahmoud Taha
• Second Message of Islam, The – Syracuse University Press

Books by Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im:

• Decolonizing Human Rights
• Islam and the Secular State — Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im | Harvard University Press

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Credits

Host: Daniel Voskoboynik
Producer: Ayman Makarem
Music: Rap and Revenge
Main theme design: Wenyi Geng
Sound editor: Ayman Makarem
Episode design: Elia Ayoub