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September 17, 2025QScience Connect

Is Islamic law incompatible with international human rights law?

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HAHanadi Alshafai

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This research reveals tensions and potential reconciliations of islamic law and international human rights law, focusing on civil rights and gender equality.

Key Points

  • While tensions exist, the study shows that sharia law contains provisions for human rights, revealing potential compatibility.
  • Key documents, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, are compared with sharia to analyze differences and interpretations.
  • The research employs a comparative analytical approach using case studies from muslim-majority MENA countries, particularly the Gulf states.
  • Contemporary scholars using ijtihad are finding ways to reinterpret sharia to align with international human rights standards.

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Hanadi Alshafai (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d45b3431b076d99fa5dc98https://doi.org/10.5339/connect.2025.3
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