Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (lahir tahun 1946) adalah seorang cendekiawan Islam kelahiran Sudan yang menetap di Amerika Serikat dan mengajar di Universitas Emory. Dia adalah Profesor Hukum Charles Howard Candler di Sekolah Hukum Universitas Emory, profesor di Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Budaya dan Sains Emory, dan anggota senior dari Pusat Studi Hukum dan Agama di Universitas Emory.

Profesor An-Na'im adalah seorang intelektual Islam, ahli hukum hak asasi manusia dan hak asasi manusia dalam perspektif lintas budaya yang diakui secara internasional. Dia mengajar mata kuliah hukum internasional, hukum perbandingan, hak asasi manusia, dan hukum Islam. Minat penelitiannya meliputi konstitusionalisme di negara-negara Islam dan Afrika, sekularisme, serta Islam dan politik. Profesor An-Na'im sering membimbing penelitian yang berfokus pada strategi advokasi untuk reformasi melalui transformasi budaya secara internal:

• Wanita dan Pertanahan di Afrika
• Hukum Keluarga Islam
• Islam dan Hak Asasi Manusia
• Masa Depan Syariah: Islam dan Negara Sekuler

Ia memperoleh gelar PhD-nya dari Universitas Edinburgh, Skotlandia, pada tahun 1976.

Karya akademiknya yang paling berpengaruh adalah Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Karya kesarjanaan

Buku

• Decolonizing Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• What is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith and Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2014)
• Muslims and Global Justice (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
• Islam and Human Rights, Collected Essays in Law Series, edited by Mashood A. Baderin (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2010)
• Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a (Harvard University Press, 2008). First published in Indonesian by Mizan publisher in 2007, Arabic by Merit publisher in 2010, and Chinese by China Social Science Press in 2017
• African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
• Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law (Syracuse University Press, 1990). First published in Arabic in 1994, Indonesian in 1995, Russian in 1999, and Farsi in 2003
• Sudanese Criminal law: General Principles of Criminal Responsibility, in Arabic (Omdurman, Sudan: Huriya Press, 1985)

Buku yang diedit

• Inter-religious Marriages among Muslims: Negotiating Religious and Social Identity in Family and Community (New Delhi, India: Global Media Publications, 2005)
• Human Rights under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, (Philadelphia, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)
• Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book (London, UK: Zed Books, 2002)
• Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa (London, UK: Zed Books, 2002)
• Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa (Maryknoll, USA: Orbis Books, 1999)
• Universal Rights, Local Remedies: Implementing Human Rights in the Legal Systems of Africa (London, UK: Interights, Afronet, GTZ, 1999)
• The Cultural Dimensions of Human Rights in the Arab World (Arabic) (Cairo, Egypt: Ibn Khaldoun Center, 1993)
• Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Quest for Consensus (Philadelphia, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992)

• With Ifi Amadiume: The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing and Social Justice (London, UK: 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)

Terjemahan

• Cry of the Owl by Francis Deng, into Arabic (Cairo, Egypt: Midlight, 1991)
• The Second Message of Islam by Ustadh Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, into English with Introduction (Syracuse, NY, USA: Syracuse University Press, 1987)

Pengantar

• Foreword in Pranoto Iskandar, Hukum HAM Internasional, Cianjur: The Institute for Migrant Rights Press, 2010.
• Foreword in War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, University of Arkansas Press, 2007.
• Foreword in Radical Conflict: Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication, Lexington, 2016.

Artikel dan chapter buku pilihan

• “Oh, [Muslims] Believers: Be Just, That is Always Closer to True Piety,” Conversations on Justice from National, International, and Global Perspectives: Dialogues with Leading Thinkers,” Jean-Marc Coicaud and Lynette E. Sieger, editors, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019) pp. 79-100
• “The Postcolonial Fallacy of ‘Islamic’ Family Law,” Shazia Choudhry and Jonathan Herring, editors (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 254-279.
• “The Spirit of Laws is not Universal: Alternatives to the Enforcement Paradigm for Human Rights,” Tilburg Law Review21 (2016), pp. 255-274.
• “The Individual and Collective Self-Liberation Model of Ustadh Mahmoud Mohamed Taha,” in Akeel Bilgrami, editor, Beyond the Secular West (Columbia University Press, 2016), pp. 45-75.
• “Islamic Politics and the Neutral State: A Friendly Amendment to Rwals?” in Tom Bailey and Valentina Gentile, editors, Rwals and Relgion, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), pp. 242-265.
• “Complementary, Not Competing, Claims of Law and Religion: An Islamic Perspective,” Pepperdine Law Review, (2013), Vol. 39, pp. 1231-1255.
• “The Interdisciplinarity of Human Rights,” in Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 97-113.
• “Islam and Human Rights,” in John Witte and M. Christian Green, editors, Religion and Human Rights, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 56-70.
• “Islam, Sharia and Democratic Transformation in the Arab World,” in Rebellion and Revolution in the Arab Region – From the Perspective of Peace Research Issue 1, Die Friedens-Warte. Journal of International Peace and Organization, (2012), Vol. 87, pp. “27-41.
• “Transcending Imperialism: Human Values and Global Citizenship,” The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Suzan Young, editor, (Salt Lake City, UT, USA: University of Utah Press, 2011), Vol. 30, pp. 71-144.
• “Religious Norms and Family Law: Is it Legal or Normative Pluralism?” Emory International Law Review, (2011), Vol. 25:2, pp. 785-809.
• “Beyond dhimmihood: Citizenship and Human Rights,” in Robert W. Hefner, editor, The New Cambridge History of Islam, Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010), Vol. 6, pp. 314-334.
• “Islam and Secularism,” in Linell Cady and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, editors, Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age, (New York, NY, USA:, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), pp. 217-228.

Pranala luar

• (Inggris) The Evolution of Sharia
• (Inggris) Interview Prof. An-Naim oleh Prof. Harry Kreisler dari the Institute of International Studies di Universitas California Berkeley di YouTube
• (Inggris) Sinergi dan Interdependensi antara Hak Asasi Manusia, Agama dan Sekularisme oleh Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
• (Inggris) Pusat Studi Hukum dan Agama di Universitas Emory
• (Inggris) The Institute for Migrant Rights