A Jurisprudential Study of Law and Economic and Business Obligations of Religious Minorities

Proprietorship is the right of every human being.Islam has not only accepted The ownership of non-Mislim individuals in Islamic countires,but has also considered the same rights for both Muslims and Non-Muslims.The Minorities are quite free within the Islamic areas in economic and business affairs.They can attend to various sound and permitted trades with both their fellow religious people and with Muslim individuals.The freedom of the Book-followers in all economic and business affairs, including sale, limited partnership, right of pre-emption, irrigational contracts, farming, renting,releasing, mortgage, deputy, and so on, with themselves and with the Muslim individuals is fix and constant without any prohibition.Most of the forbidden trades for them are the same as those for Muslims. Of course,in some cases,the jurisprudential rules such as “the negation of manner” limits the economic relations of the Book-followers.For instance, If a Muslim is a customer,and the intercessor is a Book-follower,taking the right of Pre-emption is not permissible, or in accepting the deputy of a non-Muslim against a Muslim individual is not true or valid.