الخطاب السياسي-من الممكن إلى الفعل : مقاربة سيميائية

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This study considers the Algiers Declaration (1988), which provided a basis for the establishment of the State of Palestine, highlighting its enfranchising character as political oration.

In addition to the lexical and structural ingredients typically discussed by classical studies, this type of political discourse is subject to the problematic of international relations and the realm of power.

It creates a space for the interaction of selves (Palestinian and, or with, others) and intentions (strategies advocating liberation).

The Algiers Declaration is unique for its distinctive oratory, produced in defense of the solid and eternal connection of human beings to land, as well as the legitimacy of building a homeland for the present generation and struggling generations to come.

A specific strategy is followed, in the articulation of the declaration, to establish the thesis and persuade the recipient to adopt the perspective embodied in Palestinian and international public opinion.

The declaration deploys history, creative imagination, utopian vision, ideology, symbolic edifices and other mechanisms to sustain a continuity of struggle, with rhetorical gears meshing and urging action towards liberation and a number of Islamic scholars (ulama’) and leaders of Islamic political movements to draft the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam”, as declared by the World Islamic Council in Paris, on September 19, 1981 – a declaration which summarized much of the literature attempting to formulate the idea of human rights in the Islamic system.

The religious texts of the Quran and the Sunnah enabled these thinkers to find Islamic roots for many of the rights and freedoms universally recognized in the Universal Declaration, but a problem remained: how could one determine when or if the bounds of acceptable ijtihad – juristic interpretation – had been exceeded? This paper offers an in-depth discussion on the natural concept of freedom and the ways in which contemporary Islamic thought has debated it, taking various stands regarding civil and political rights, in the framework of the political community.