IBT- Islamic Jurisprudence - an Islamic perspective
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- Author C G Weeramantry
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C G Weeramantry
Islamic jurisprudence is a much misunderstood system. This misunderstandings due to lack of information and to centuries of prejudice. This book seeks to present information, not at present available in a single work, on the pioneering efforts of Islamic jurists to develop a comprehensive body of human rights principles and practice as well as a corpus of international law principles long anticipated any similar work in other legal or cultural systems. Human rights doctrine based upon the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet was expressed in terms which will strike the reader as surprisingly modern. In international law, Islamic treatise anticipated of the work of Grotus by eight centuries.
(9789839541168/3396)
Islamic jurisprudence is a much misunderstood system. This misunderstandings due to lack of information and to centuries of prejudice. This book seeks to present information, not at present available in a single work, on the pioneering efforts of Islamic jurists to develop a comprehensive body of human rights principles and practice as well as a corpus of international law principles long anticipated any similar work in other legal or cultural systems. Human rights doctrine based upon the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet was expressed in terms which will strike the reader as surprisingly modern. In international law, Islamic treatise anticipated of the work of Grotus by eight centuries.
(9789839541168/3396)
