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20t Aricle Final Edited
20t Aricle Final Edited
The provisions to all the people must be done justly and fairly. The development of the law of Nations is
governed by Prophet’s sunnah which is the main element.
Western writers say that the laws of city-states dealt with the Greeks only. Greeks followed no code of
law in dealings with the rest of the world but each other only. They adopted different courses of action
in their dealings with different people. Soon Greek International law suffered from a serious drawback.
The reason was that it was confined to a few people who were not worthy of being treated by the law.
After the Greeks, Western people dealt with the Roman era in the context of international law. Rome at
that time became the capital of a vast empire that included Europe, North Africa, and other parts of
Asia. The Roman Empire respected law only in dealings with the state and not with the rest of the world.
The Roman period was not suitable for the formation of International law. The rules and regulations
there were different for everyone. Western historians begin their international law with the emergence
of the city-state, then in the Roman period, and then in the Fifteenth-century modern international law
begins. It was in the beginning fixed for the Christians only.
The European states applied the law to non-Christian states in Ottoman Empire. Then after sixty years,
the law was applied to Japan and some other states under certain conditions.
Private international law deals with the problems relating to the law of nationality. Like they discuss
Shia-Sunni relations from the legal point of view.
1. Law of peace
2. Law of war
3. Law of neutrality
Deals with three or four issues like sovereignty which is the first one. Modern international law includes
rebels in it but only when they begin the administer an area of the country on their own. Law of peace
concerns embassies. In old days there were no permanent ambassadors. They were assigned for a
specific purpose to a country for a limited period and when they completed their mission, they returned
home. The Law of war deals with the subjects like the law of war in respect of human beings, the law
governing property, and the qualities of a treaty concluded at the end of the war. International law
covers the principles and rules administrating the relations of one state with another state.