Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Mofid University, Qom, Iran.
Abstract
Many regard secularism as a requisite premise of human rights promotion. From this point of view, compatibility or incompatibility between Islam and human rights depends on the possibility of secular interpretation of Islam. This claim is based on the belief that human rights belong to human beings as they are human beings. Therefore, equal enjoyment of these rights is in contradiction to the separation of individuals based on their religions and beliefs. But a religious government, due to its regulating the individual and communal relations in accordance with a single recognized religion, will necessarily turn to the separation. What this article is going to deal with is that which interpretation of religious government has more cooperation with human rights.
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