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<p>This article examines Islamic Feminism (IF) as an example of an alternative rights framework that falls beyond international human rights law (IHRL) in terms of its epistemic and conceptual grounding of rights. Specifically, it focuses on IF as it is engaged by Saudi women’s rights activists in their petitions against the ban on women driving. The article shows that while the engagement with IF does disrupt IHRL’s claim to universality as a framework for justice, its deployment as part of a struggle for juridical rights limits its liberatory potential. Through showing how both IF and IHRL produce and preclude particular subjects of rights, the article moves toward more emancipatory political imaginaries that transcend statist boundaries.</p>

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Beyond International Human Rights: Islamic Feminism as Alternative Rights Praxis

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    2025年7月3日

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  • Nora Jaber

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This article examines Islamic Feminism (IF) as an example of an alternative rights framework that falls beyond international human rights law (IHRL) in terms of its epistemic and conceptual grounding of rights. Specifically, it focuses on IF as it is engaged by Saudi women’s rights activists in their petitions against the ban on women driving. The article shows that while the engagement with IF does disrupt IHRL’s claim to universality as a framework for justice, its deployment as part of a struggle for juridical rights limits its liberatory potential. Through showing how both IF and IHRL produce and preclude particular subjects of rights, the article moves toward more emancipatory political imaginaries that transcend statist boundaries.