Religion, law, and the politics of human rights - Talal Asad and Abdullahi An-Na’im in conversation

Have yet to read or watch but can imagine will be intellectually stimulating:

Talal Asad and Abdullahi An-Na’im both stand at the forefront of the challenging and constructive exchange taking place today between European and Islamic traditions of political, legal, and religious thought. At a recent event organized by Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, the two scholars traded questions and criticisms concerning the concept of human rights. Moderated by José Casanova, the discussion addressed the intrinsic limitations and historical failures of the language of human rights, as well as its formidable capacity to challenge autocratic and state-centric distributions of power, creating openings for democratic contestation and political self-determination.

http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/11/09/religion-law-and-human-rights/

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