Human rights in Islam

dc.contributor.author	Moosa, Najma
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-13T14:12:56Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-13T14:12:56Z
dc.date.issued	1998
dc.description.abstract	Introduction: Conflicts between human rights and religion do exist. Is this true of Islam? The answer is not as simple as 'yes' or 'no'. Although an examination of human rights in an Islamic context will reveal its theocentric rather than secular and judicial basis, this paper asserts that, notwithstanding (later) Islamic law interpretations to the contrary, (original) Islam is compatible with the modern notion of human rights. The fact that some Muslim countries have opted for Western constitutional models because of uncertainty as to what constitutes Islamic constitutional law clearly supports this assertion. On the other hand, because of the Western origin of modern constitutions, countries like Saudi Arabia have no formal written constitution.	en_US
dc.description.accreditation	Web of Science	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Moosa, N. (1998). Human rights in Islam. South African Journal on Human Rights, 14: 508-524	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	02587203
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10566/640
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitter	false
dc.publisher	Juta Law	en_US
dc.rights	Copyright Juta Law. The publisher has given permission for this file to be stored in the Repository.
dc.status.ispeerreviewed	true
dc.subject	Human rights	en_US
dc.subject	Islam	en_US
dc.title	Human rights in Islam	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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