The Rights of Minorities in the Islamic State
- The Rights of Minorities in the Islamic State
"The Rights of Minorities in the Islamic State" (Urdu: "Islami riyasat main zimmiun ke huquq") is a book written by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, published in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954.
In it Maududi references the millet system and its organization along communal lines as a possible way the Islamic state would deal with minority rights according to the sharia concept of dhimma. [cite web | url = http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Nasr.pdf | title = International Relations of an Islamist Movement: The Case of the Jama’at-i Islami of Pakistan | accessdate = 2006-06-25 | author = Vali Nasr | last = Nasr | first = Vali | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2000 | format = PDF | work = | publisher = Council on Foreign Relations | pages = 24 | language = English ]
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