Are Human Rights Compatible with Islam?
Friday, 30 October 2020
By Riffat Hassan, Ph.D. Though the Universal declaration of Human Rights is called “Universal”, it “was articulated along the lines of historical trends of the Western world during the last three centuries, and a certain philosophical anthropology of individualistic humanism which helped justify them” [1]. The basic assumptions underlying the Declaration were a) of a
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Human Rights in Islam
Friday, 30 October 2020
The Qur’an is the Book of Revelation which Muslims believe to be God’s Word transmitted through the agency of Angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Of all the sources of the Islamic tradition, undoubtedly, the most important is the Qur’an which is regarded by Muslims in general as the primary, and
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