Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law

In Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law, Kristine Kalanges argues that differences between Western and Islamic legal formulations of religious freedom are attributable to variations in their respective religious and intellectual histories. Kalanges suggests that while divergence between the two bodies of law challenges the characterization of religious liberty as a universal human right, the difficult choice between the universality of religious liberty rights and peaceful co-existence of diverse legal cultures may yet be transformed through the cultivation of a world legal tradition.