The Arab charter of human rights

Abstract

The effort made by various sectors of the Muslim culture to define an Islamic doctrine of human rights was part of a large movement which united all the Muslim Community in a search through its past: That is, a search through its own religious and cultural traditions to find answers to the challenges of modernity. According to important exponents of Islamic thought and in contrast to other concepts, like democracy, 'the notion of inherent rights to the human person has from its origins been inscribed in the Islamic conscience. Like any other civilization, even Islamic civilization has developed its own vision of Man and of the totality of rights and obligations that are inherent to his person.