A Muslim perspective on human rights

Sara Lipka

A glance at the winter issue of CrossCurrents: A Muslim perspective on human rights

Current Muslim contributions to Western human-rights discussions are inadequate, and a "radical restructuring" of Islamic human-rights discourse is necessary, writes Imam Zaid Shakir, spiritual leader of the Masjid al-Islam mosque in New Haven, Conn., and a spiritual adviser to Muslim students at Yale University.

Imam Shakir argues that because "there is no exact equivalent for the English