ABSTRACT
This chapter devotes to a conceptual analysis of human rights in Islam and international law. Human rights are widely accepted as individual entitlements that grew from European modern thought on natural law. Samuel P. Huntington argues that differences in culture and religion create differences over policy issues such as human rights so that the promotion of human rights by the west merely provokes civilisational clashes. Human rights in Islam are deeply rooted in the conviction that God, and God alone, is the author of Law and the source of all human rights. "Human rights in Islam, as prescribed by the divine law are the privilege only of persons of full legal capacity. An analysis of the conceptual foundations of human rights from a comparative perspective leads one to the conclusion that there is a human rights discourse within the Islamic tradition.
