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THE NARRATIVE OF POLITICAL ISLAM: CONSTITUTIONALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
THE NARRATIVE OF POLITICAL ISLAM: CONSTITUTIONALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Author(s): Nikola Gjorshoski
Subject(s): History of Law, Constitutional Law, Philosophical Traditions, Political Philosophy, Islam studies, Religion and science , Philosophy of Religion, Political behavior, Political psychology, Politics and religion, Politics and society, Comparative politics, History of Islam, Contemporary Islamic Thought, Canon Law / Church Law, Philosophy of Law, History of Religion
Published by: Institute for Research and European Studies - Bitola
Keywords: Political Islam;Constitutionalism;Shariа law;Human rights;Islamic government

Summary/Abstract: One of the essential postulates of political orientation and determination for the building of stable societies and a functioning political system in its content recognizes and imposes the need to examine the relation of relevant political actors to constitutionalism and human rights as concepts and preoccupations for any modern society. Also, constitutionalism and human rights and freedoms as its inseparable category manifest the political values and the corpus of essential and common political goals and commitments of a particular political community. Political Islam as an ideological political subject has its own sources and a valuable orientation framework through which prisms and perceptions can be interpreted or extracted by individual axiological determinants to certain issues. This paper analyzes exactly the relations of political Islam with constitutionalism and human rights, and similarly to the so-called framework it draws attention to the concepts of power, the mechanisms of control and compliance with the Sharia regulations. At the same time, the importance of human rights and freedoms in the Islamic narrative, their nature and scope, as well as the differences with the western established documents in this area are emphasized and analyzed.

  • Issue Year: IV/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 75-87
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English