Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. His specialties include human rights in Islam and cross-cultural issues in human rights, and he is the director of the Religion and Human Rights Program at Emory. He also participates in Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. An-Naim was formerly the Executive Director of the African bureau of Human Rights Watch. He argues for a synergy and interdependence between human rights, religion and secularism, instead of a dichotomy and incompatibility between them.

An-Naim is originally from Sudan, where he was greatly influenced by the Islamic reform movement of Mahmoud Mohamed Taha.

Main Publications

Author

*"Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a". Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press (2008).
*"African Constitutionalism and the Contingent Role of Islam". Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press (2006).
*"Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law". Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990 (soft-cover edition by American University in Cairo, 1992). Translated in Arabic (1994), Indonesian (1995), Russian (1999), and Persian 2003.
*"Sudanese Criminal Law: General Principles of Criminal Responsibility" (Arabic). Omdurman, Sudan: Huriya Press, 1985.

Editor

*"Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves." Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
*"Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book". London: Zed Books, 2002.
*"Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa". London: Zed Books, 2002.
*"Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa". Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999.
*"Universal Rights, Local Remedies: Legal Protection of Human Rights under the Constitutions of African Countries". London: Interights, 1999.
*"The Cultural Dimensions of Human Rights in the Arab World" (Arabic). Cairo: Ibn Khaldoun Center, 1993.
*"Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Quest for Consensus". Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Co-editor

*With Ifi Amadiume: "The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing and Social Justice". London: Zed Books, 2000.
*With J. D. Gort, H. Jansen, & H. M. Vroom: "Human Rights and Religious Values: An Uneasy Relationship?" Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995.
*With Francis Deng: "Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives". Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1990.

Translator

*Arabic translation: Francis Deng: Cry of the Owl (a political novel). Cairo: Midlight, 1991.
*English translation with an Introduction: Ustadh Mahmoud Mohamed Taha: The Second Message of Islam. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1987.

Related Media

*Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of the Religious Law of Islam. Presentation at the University of Illinois, 2008.See [http://www.cgs.uiuc.edu/resources/webvideo/an_naim.html link] for video.

External links

* [http://people.law.emory.edu/~abduh46/ An-Naim's personal website]
* [http://them.polylog.org/3/faa-en.htm The Synergy and Interdependence of Human Rights, Religion and Secularism] by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im