Minority Rights in the Middle East

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Notes

1 W. Kymlicka and W. Norman, eds., Citizenship in Diverse Societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 1–11.

2 F. Capotorti, Study on the Rights of Persons Belonging to Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, UN Doc E/CN.4/Sub2/384/Rev.1 (1977).

3 A claim refuted by the international inquiry into the events commissioned by the Bahrain regime itself: Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), Manama, Bahrain, December 2011, http://files.bici.org.bh/BICIreportEN.pdf

4 A. Emon, Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012); and M. Baderin, ‘Islamic Law and International Protection of Minority Rights in Context’, in Islam and International Law, eds. M. Frick and A. Th. Müller (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 309–48. On the wider frame of moral reference of the shari'a, see particularly N. Feldman, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

5 A. Filali-Ansary, ‘The Languages of the Arab Revolutions’, Journal of Democracy 23, no. 2 (2012): 5–18.

6 R. Hefner, ed., Shari'a Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011).

7 This is not only true of Israel with its Christian and Muslim minorities, but also of the US diaspora: J. Berger, ‘Out of Enclaves, a Pressure to Accommodate Traditions’, New York Times, Aug 21, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/nyregion/hasidic-jews-turn-up-pressure-on-city-to-accommodate-their-traditions.html?src=recg

8 F. Dallmayr, ‘Cosmopolitanism: In Search of Cosmos’, Ethics and Global Politics 5, no. 3 (2012): 171–86.