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OF INTERNATIONAL
HUMANITARIAN LAW
ORIGINS OF THE ISLAMIC LAW OF WAR
1) the Qur’ān;
2) the Sunnah;
3) early Islamic precedents;
4) consensus among the jurists;
5) jurists’ rulings reached through analogy; and
6) the public interest.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ISLAMIC LAW
OF WAR
(1)Religious basis;
(2)Religious motivations;
(3)Self-imposed;
(4)Contextually and textually based;
(5)Regulations on the use of force that
contradicted each other;
(6)The wide gap between theory and practice;
PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL
HUMANITARIAN LAW
1. Protection of civilians and non -combatants
4. Protection of proper ty
The first caliph Abu Bakr (d. 634) instructed his army
commander thus: “do not cut down fruit -bearing trees; do not
destroy buildings; do not slaughter a sheep or a camel except
for food; do not burn or drown palm trees.”
5. Prohibition against mutilation