Examination of Human Rights Concept in Contemporary Religious New Thought; Contrastive Discussing of Imam Khomeini and Abul A'la Maududi Thoughts

Nowadays issues related to human rights are not only considered the most important problems in the scientific communities of the world, but also they have great importance in human communities in cultural, social, legal, ethical and particularly political terms. Regarding Islam Religion universality in formulating rules of human life, human rights have been considered as an important principle. The trend of religious new thought in Islamic World has special attention to presenting new reading of Islam based on contemporary requirements of Islamic Communities both shia and sunni. Imam Khomeini and Abul A'la Maududi are among the thinkers of this trend discussing human being rights in their works. The problem in this paper is examination of basics and examples of humn rights in thoughts of these two thinkers. Despite that the thinkers belong to two different trends of Ismalism i.e. shia and sunni, formulation of their theories on human rights in some cases like freedom, human dignity, human rights, equity and … is the same; though considering women and their dignity as one example of human rights, has been only considered in Imam Khomeini’s thought. Nowadays issues related to human rights are not only considered the most important problems in the scientific communities of the world, but also they have great importance in human communities in cultural, social, legal, ethical and particularly political terms. Regarding Islam Religion universality in formulating rules of human life, human rights have been considered as an important principle. The trend of religious new thought in Islamic World has special attention to presenting new reading of Islam based on contemporary requirements of Islamic Communities both shia and sunni. Imam Khomeini and Abul A'la Maududi are among the thinkers of this trend discussing human being rights in their works. T