Volume 23, Issue 3, June 2018, Pages 290–298
Badre-Eddine EZZITI1
1 University Muhammad ben Abdullah, Faculty of Chariaa, Sais-Fes, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper examines the question of the historical development of constitutional Islamic religious text of the legal status of non-Muslims in Islam from the beginning of the call of the Prophet up to the modern time. The paper follows and explores the nature of the religious foundations of the Dhimma system by shedding light on the constitutional religious texts that played a big role in the establishment of the legal status of non-Muslims in early Islam. This research based mainly on primary sources, particularly the classical works of Islamic law, but it will refer only to Maliki jurisprudence. This study will not look at the sources of Islamic law from the religious’ point of view. Second sources of data will be the secondary sources that are composed of specialized academic literature such as historical books, journal and magazine articles on this subject. This subject will be divided into through two sections. The first section, clarifies concepts such as Ahl al-Dhimma and dhimmis by drawing a picture on the development of the concept of Ahl al-Dhimma in Islamic classical fiqh. The second section, analyzes the historical development of the foundational texts that determine the status of non-Muslims in early Islam up to the modern time.
Author Keywords: Islamic Religious Text, Constitutional, Dhimma, Legal Status, non-Muslims, ṣaḥīfat al-Madīna, al-Shurūt al-‘Umarīyah.
Badre-Eddine EZZITI1
1 University Muhammad ben Abdullah, Faculty of Chariaa, Sais-Fes, Morocco
Original language: English
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper examines the question of the historical development of constitutional Islamic religious text of the legal status of non-Muslims in Islam from the beginning of the call of the Prophet up to the modern time. The paper follows and explores the nature of the religious foundations of the Dhimma system by shedding light on the constitutional religious texts that played a big role in the establishment of the legal status of non-Muslims in early Islam. This research based mainly on primary sources, particularly the classical works of Islamic law, but it will refer only to Maliki jurisprudence. This study will not look at the sources of Islamic law from the religious’ point of view. Second sources of data will be the secondary sources that are composed of specialized academic literature such as historical books, journal and magazine articles on this subject. This subject will be divided into through two sections. The first section, clarifies concepts such as Ahl al-Dhimma and dhimmis by drawing a picture on the development of the concept of Ahl al-Dhimma in Islamic classical fiqh. The second section, analyzes the historical development of the foundational texts that determine the status of non-Muslims in early Islam up to the modern time.
Author Keywords: Islamic Religious Text, Constitutional, Dhimma, Legal Status, non-Muslims, ṣaḥīfat al-Madīna, al-Shurūt al-‘Umarīyah.
How to Cite this Article
Badre-Eddine EZZITI, “The Historical Development of Constitutional Islamic Religious Text of the legal status of non-Muslims in Islam,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 290–298, June 2018.
