TY - JOUR ID - 123414 TI - International Law, Islam and the Universality of Human Rights Perspective: an Iranian Perspective JO - Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs JA - IRFA LA - en SN - 20088221 AU - Jalali, Mahmood AU - Bani-Najarian, Safoura AD - AD - University of Isfahan Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 3 IS - 10 SP - 175 EP - 197 KW - Human rights KW - International Law KW - Islam KW - universality KW - globalization DO - N2 - From the beginning of human life on earth, human needs have beencrystallized in their relationship and interaction with each other. As a resultof such an inter-relationship and interaction, it has been necessary for abody of law to exist that would specify humans’ duties and obligationstowards each other. Even though different regulations concerning humanrights have been codified, human beings have not taken benefit from theserights on an equal basis. In fact, we see that throughout history, theoppressed have fought oppressors. In these protracted struggles, humanbeings continued to seek transcendental rights; rights they wanted to enjoyregardless of power and wealth, skin color and race. Based on thisargument, if we look at the objectives and activities related to humanrights, we can suggest that monotheistic religions also played a crucial partin promoting human rights. According to the findings of this research,although international law and Islamic international law both believe in theuniversality of human rights, without any doubt their nature andfoundation differ. Nonetheless, there are numerous shared grounds andpoints between the two aforementioned bodies of law for whose studyand utilization international human resources have to be used to forgeunity and to protect world peace and security. UR - https://irfajournal.csr.ir/article_123414.html L1 - ER -