Paradoxical normativities in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia: Islamic law and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

Mueller DM (2016)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2016

Journal

Asian Survey University of California Press

Book Volume: 56

Pages Range: 415-441

Journal Issue: 3

DOI: 10.1525/as.2016.56.3.415

Abstract

Brunei and Malaysia are promoting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration but enforce a brand of Islamic law that systematically violates it. The paradoxical ways in which policymakers are navigating between the two, and the empirical realities of Islamic governance, impede the project of a transdoctrinal justification of human rights.

Authors with CRIS profile

Dominik Müller

Involved external institutions

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Mueller, D.M. (2016). Paradoxical normativities in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia: Islamic law and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration. Asian Survey, 56(3), 415-441. https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.2016.56.3.415

MLA:

Mueller, Dominik M.. "Paradoxical normativities in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia: Islamic law and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration." Asian Survey 56.3 (2016): 415-441.

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