caa a22 4500 378898434 CHVBK 20180305123512.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041028xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1554-4419.1006 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1554-4419.1006 Morrison Heidi 1The University of California at Santa Barbara; CASA Fellow, Egypt, morrison-heidi@hotmail.com Beyond Universalism [Elektronische Daten] [Heidi Morrison] The field of human rights scholarship has traditionally been dominated by legal experts, political scientists, and sociologists. While historians have played a somewhat minor role in tracing human rights intellectual history, few have actually engaged in the central debate that has engrossed human rights scholars of other disciplines over the last few decades, i.e. the debate on theory. In this paper, I investigate the possibility for historians, or scholars of any discipline for that matter, to contribute to the ongoing debate on human rights through adopting a method of literary analysis. Through this investigation , I argue that scholars are missing the mark in focussing the debate on human rights theory around the concept of universalism. My paper relates particularily to traditionally Muslim societies.I first give an overview of what has been written by human rights scholars on theory, then I justify a literary analysis approach for studying human rights, and lastly I apply this approach to two texts, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam. In the end, this approach points scholars to the need to focus less on the meaning of the concept 's'suniversalism" and more on the meaning of 's'sthe human". ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston history nationallicence human rights nationallicence theory nationallicence Islam nationallicence Muslim World Journal of Human Rights De Gruyter 1/1(2004-10-28) 1:1 2004 1 mwjhr https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4419.1006 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4419.1006 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Morrison Heidi 1The University of California at Santa Barbara; CASA Fellow, Egypt, morrison-heidi@hotmail.com NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Muslim World Journal of Human Rights De Gruyter 1/1(2004-10-28) 1:1 2004 1 mwjhr CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter