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

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

ISBN 10: 1903682541 / ISBN 13: 9781903682548

Published by The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, 2008

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Right to Life, Security, Privacy and Ownership in Islam (Hardcover)
• Publisher: The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903682541
• ISBN 13: 9781903682548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Exploring the ideas of human rights according to the laws of Islam, this discussion examines the sanctity of life, murder, unintentional killing, the death penalty, abortion, suicide, and euthanasia. The arguments are introduced by Qur’anic quotations and Prophetic anecdotes and include practical examples of both medieval and contemporary applications. Relevant to the current international interest of multicultural perspectives on human rights, this analysis also covers security against unlawful arrest, freedom from torture, immunity against invasion of privacy, and restrictions imposed by the Shari’a on the exercises of these rights.

About the Author

Mohammad Hashim Kamali is dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization and a professor of Islamic law and jurisprudence at the International Islamic University Malaysia.