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Universal Jurisdiction in Islam
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Abstract
Muslim jurists historically recognised the validity of such ideas, and in fact endorsed such political practices, as respecting international treaties and arbitration, and the rights of people to seek justice through those means. Jurists wrote about and explained specific rulings and edicts, both in what is often referred to as classical times and in contemporary works. We shall see that this is a principle and practice that not only had merit, but is arguably mandatory today in order to redress wrongs and seek such necessities as stopping war crimes and genocides, or at least curtailing them as much as possible
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