The Right to Life, Security, Privacy and Ownership in Islam (Hardcover)

Hardcover. A person's right to life, personal security, privacy, and ownershipare the most basic of all the fundamental rights and liberties and areof concern to all legal systems and traditions. To address them side byside with one another, as is attempted in the present volume, isreflective of their natural priority and significance. These rights aresimultaneously the most vulnerable to aggression and abuse.The right to life is the basic right from which all the othersderive. The discussion of this fundamental right includes: the sanctityof life from the Islamic perspective, murder, unintentional killing, thedeath penalty and compensations for victims. This chapter also includesdiscussions of abortion, suicide, and euthanasia.The second of the rights discussed is the right to security and thisincludes: the security against unlawful arrest, the right to fairtreatment, the right to counsel, freedom from aggression and torture.The third right is that of privacy and is mainly concerned with theprivacy of one's home, confidential correspondence, and immunity againstinvasion of privacy in the forms of interception of correspondence,eavesdropping and other such violations.Finally, the discussion of the right of ownership includes the fouraspects of ownership in Islam, legitimate and illegitimate means ofacquisition of ownership, and the restrictions that the Sharia imposes on the exercise of this right including taxation, inheritance and bequests. A person's right to life, security, privacy and ownership are the most basic of all the fundamental rights and liberties and are of concern to all legal systems and societies. Here, Prof Kamali discusses each of these rights from an Islamic perspective based on the Qur'an and the teachings of the Prophet Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…