Tag: Human Dignity
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Islam and the Foundations of Human Rights
This book examines Islam’s views on fundamental human rights issues, such as human dignity, equality, freedom, justice, peace, tolerance, the general principles of women’s rights, and the theory of the state in Islam. The content of the book demonstrates that an empathetic understanding of Islam, in harmony with the principles of human rights, is easy…
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Religion and Human Dignity
Introduction The works of many philosophers and anthropologists of the Renaissance and thereafter are filled with the idea of human dignity, by virtue of his mere humanity, and regardless of such ties as religion, race, gender, and geographical habitude. In the gloomy years following the two devastating World Wars, the collective conscience of the mankind…