International Law Western and Islamic Perspective
International law western and Islamic perspective
Submitted to; Sir Akhter Hussain
Submitted by; Sadia MasoodBS
Comparison of Siyar and International law
From the very first day when man began to organize them selves in political communities they have felt the need for some rules and regulations to regulate their inter-community relations. And with the passage of time now we reached to a time o f international relations rather than the relations among small communities or tribes. And there is need to regulate the relations among states.
The topic of our discussion is comparison of Siyar and International law. Both deals with same issues of war and peace but differently so there is a need to understand both the systems. First part of this paper will deal with international law and the second part will be dealt with Siyar the Muslim international law.
International law
Jeremy Bentham first used the term in 1780, and later on it is defined by important jurists and philosophers such as
Lawrence defines the International law as “the rules which determine the conduct of the general body of civilized states in their mutual dealings”.
According to professor briefly international law is “the body of rules and principals of action which are binding upon civilized states in their relations with one another”.
International law consists of the rules and principals of general application dealing with the conduct of states and of international organizations in their international relations with one another and with private individuals, minority groups and transnational companies.
In strict legal sense international law can not be a law and it is important topic of discussion to jurists to define international law as a law.If we look into the definition of law as given by T.E Holland “law is general rule of external human action enforced by a sovereign political authority” we can better understand that there is no sovereign authority in international
Submitted to; Sir Akhter Hussain
Submitted by; Sadia MasoodBS
Comparison of Siyar and International law
From the very first day when man began to organize them selves in political communities they have felt the need for some rules and regulations to regulate their inter-community relations. And with the passage of time now we reached to a time o f international relations rather than the relations among small communities or tribes. And there is need to regulate the relations among states.
The topic of our discussion is comparison of Siyar and International law. Both deals with same issues of war and peace but differently so there is a need to understand both the systems. First part of this paper will deal with international law and the second part will be dealt with Siyar the Muslim international law.
International law
Jeremy Bentham first used the term in 1780, and later on it is defined by important jurists and philosophers such as
Lawrence defines the International law as “the rules which determine the conduct of the general body of civilized states in their mutual dealings”.
According to professor briefly international law is “the body of rules and principals of action which are binding upon civilized states in their relations with one another”.
International law consists of the rules and principals of general application dealing with the conduct of states and of international organizations in their international relations with one another and with private individuals, minority groups and transnational companies.
In strict legal sense international law can not be a law and it is important topic of discussion to jurists to define international law as a law.If we look into the definition of law as given by T.E Holland “law is general rule of external human action enforced by a sovereign political authority” we can better understand that there is no sovereign authority in international