The Manitoba Islamic Association and the Canadian Museum on Human Rights Present a free public lecture on the topic of
"Human Rights in Islamic Thought"

The guest speaker will be Dr. Ingrid Mattson, a leading scholar on Islam in North America.

Human rightshave been the subject of much discussion among Muslim thinkers since the rise of Islam, while the key concerns have shifted over time. The Qur'an and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad are particularly insistent upon the rights of all people to life, basic subsistence and religious freedom. In the imperial age of Islam, upholding the rights of religious and local communities and self-organizing entities (such as trade guilds) to a degree of self-governance was balanced with the desire to offer individuals an appeal to justice outside the collectivist ethos. At the dawn of the modern era, reformists articulated a theological ethics of freedom and rights centered within nationalism that sought to give full equality to all human beings, seeking to abolish slavery, religious discrimination and patriarchy. The sobering reality is that there is rarely total success in achieving the rights advocated for in the past, while we continue to face more challenges to rights as new technologies that can be used for human liberation or repression by any state or group capable of seizing power become available. Authority, power, technology and identity are universal themes of human rights struggles that engage Muslims in our world today. External Event Url
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
85 Israel Asper Way, Winnipeg, MB, Canada