The Islamic humanitarian general principles that govern armed conflicts

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This study aims at clarifying the Islamic attitude towards human rights, especially those rights prescribed to humans during an armed conflict, as is revealed in the Holy Qur’an and the Prophetical Sunnah.

Analysis will be directed by taking into account the general current international standards of human rights as stated in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, and deciphering the extent of compatibility of those principles with Islamic rules and vice versa.

However, this study will not address the degree of difference between the two categories of rights that both systems lay down, but only the principles prescribed in the positive humanitarian international law, by extracting Qur'anic verses and prophetical A hadeeths which reveal these principles.

These principles would be the ones that Islam imposes, and requires maintaining them for the benefit of the international relationships and their stability, and that regulates the co-existence of nations without aggression.