The Right to Life, Security, Privacy and Ownership in Islam

By:

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Fundamental Rights and Liberties in Islam Series

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A person's right to life, personal security, privacy, and ownership are the most basic of all the fundamental rights and liberties and are of concern to all legal systems and traditions. To address them side by side with one another, as is attempted in the present volume, is reflective of their natural priority and significance. These rights are simultaneously the most vulnerable to aggression and abuse. The right to life is the basic right from which all the others derive. The discussion of this fundamental right includes: the sanctity of life from the Islamic perspective, murder, unintentional killing, the death penalty and compensations for victims. This chapter also includes discussions of abortion, suicide, and euthanasia. The second of the rights discussed is the right to security and this includes: the security against unlawful arrest, the right to fair treatment, the right to counsel, freedom from aggression and torture. The third right is that of privacy and is mainly concerned with the privacy of one's home, confidential correspondence, and immunity against invasion of privacy in the forms of interception of correspondence, eavesdropping and other such violations. Finally, the discussion of the right of ownership includes the four aspects of ownership in Islam, legitimate and illegitimate means of acquisition of ownership, and the restrictions that the Sharia imposes on the exercise of this right including taxation, inheritance and bequests.

Author Biography:

Prof Mohammad H. Kamali is Chairman of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was formerly Professor of Law at the International Islamic University Malaysia, where he taught Islamic law and jurisprudence for over twenty years.

Release date Australia

June 1st, 2008

Author

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

344

Series

Fundamental Rights and Liberties in Islam Series

Dimensions

156x234x25

ISBN-13

9781903682555

Product ID

3590621

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