The Measure of Mercy: Islamic Justice, Sovereign Power, and Human Rights in Iran.
In January 2000, Iranian government agents hailed a last-minute death sentence reprieve as an expression of Islamic human rights. Officials mobilized a native source of human rights in the invocation of mercy. For some, the proliferation of human rights norms situates a state in the fold of modern...
| Published in: | Cultural Anthropology Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 570 - 603 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
November 2006
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