The Declaration of Human Rights from the Perspective of Classical Schools of International and Islamic Law

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Farid Beyranvand 1
Elaheh Dastanpour Hosseinabadi 2
1 Associate Faculty Member, Law Department, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 Master's student in Private Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/jhsrj.2025.2049241.1000
Abstract
Background and Aim: The world of law is a tool for regulating relations between individuals and subjects. Undoubtedly, human persons are currently considered the main subject of law and at the same time the goal of law. Accordingly, human rights have a high position in the ruling order of today.
Materials and Methods: This research is of theoretical type and the research method is descriptive-analytical and the method of data collection is library.
Ethical Considerations: In order to organize this research, while observing the authenticity of the texts, honesty and fidelity have been observed.
Findings: Considering the issues that philosophy seeks to define and answer the concept of what it is, including the concept of man and his being human; human rights should be considered related to philosophy from the birth of philosophical thoughts. However, the entry of concepts such as government, sovereignty, law, the rule of law, as well as the way in which human rights enter the space in which legal rules are implemented, has caused fundamental changes in the philosophical discussions related to it. Also, man and his relationship with God and other humans have been among the issues that Islamic philosophical schools have also addressed.
Conclusion: although Islamic philosophical schools were not explicitly mentioned at the time of drafting and approving the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this declaration does not conflict with the method of Islamic philosophers.
Keywords
Human rights
philosophical schools
international law
Islamic philosophical schools
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