The fourth world conservation lecture: The evolution of conservation and contemporary issues

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Mohammed Kassas
Keyword(s):  
Fourth World ◽  
World Conservation

Human Rights in Traditionalist Islam

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-105
Author(s):  
Robert Dickson Crane
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
World War ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
Fourth World ◽  
Common Heritage ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Identity

The vaunted clash of civilizations has grown into a Fourth World War of demonization against Islam. The newest strategy is to single out Islam’s essential values, deny that they exist, and assert that their absence constitutes the Islamic threat. This article shows the common identity of classical American and classical Islamic thought so that Muslims, Christians, and Jews can unite against religious extremism. Muslim jurisprudents developed the world’s most sophisticated code of human responsibilities and rights. This is now being revived as the common heritage of western civilization based on the premise that justice reflects a truth higher than man-made positivist law and on the corollary that the task of religion is to translate transcendent truth into the transcendent law of compassionate justice.

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