Use of Force in the Sudan: Between Islamic Law and International Law

Q3 Social Sciences
Sean Hilhorst
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There are barriers of perception between Sudanese Muslims for whom the sharia is a source of authority and identity and others who see it as an oppressive means of dominating Sudan's minority populations. I make a distinction between process and substance in law, and show that a flawed process has contributed to a perception of international law as an instrument of powerful states, which has obscured its legislative and procedural usefulness to the Sudan as a member of the United Nations. Similarly a distortion of due process in Sudan's sharia has created a substance derived from the legacy of medieval Arabia rather than applied legal methodology. One consequence of this is that Sudan's Civil Wars have been given the attributes of offensive jihad against its diverse non-Muslim populations. I argue that offensive jihad was a legal construction designed to meet the challenges of medieval Arab society, with little basis in the fundamental sources of Islamic law or in contemporary legal methodology. I advocate a return to due process as a partial solution to the impasse between Muslim and non-Muslim identities in the Sudan, and show how international law can be improved by accommodating other legal traditions.
在苏丹使用武力:伊斯兰法与国际法之间
对苏丹穆斯林来说,伊斯兰教法是权威和身份的来源,而对其他人来说,伊斯兰教法是统治苏丹少数民族的压迫手段,两者之间存在认知障碍。我对法律中的程序和实质进行了区分,并指出有缺陷的程序造成了将国际法视为强国工具的看法,这掩盖了国际法对作为联合国成员的苏丹在立法和程序上的有用性。同样,苏丹伊斯兰教法中对正当程序的扭曲创造了一种源自中世纪阿拉伯遗产的实质,而不是适用的法律方法。这样做的一个后果是,苏丹内战被赋予了针对其多样化的非穆斯林人口的进攻性圣战的属性。我认为,攻击性圣战是一种旨在应对中世纪阿拉伯社会挑战的法律建构,在伊斯兰法的基本来源或当代法律方法论中几乎没有基础。我主张恢复正当程序,作为解决苏丹穆斯林和非穆斯林身份之间僵局的部分办法,并表明如何通过适应其他法律传统来改进国际法。
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期刊介绍: Muslim World Journal of Human Rights promises to serve as a forum in which barriers are bridged (or at least, addressed), and human rights are finally discussed with an eye on the Muslim world, in an open and creative manner. The choice to name the journal, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights reflects a desire to examine human rights issues related not only to Islam and Islamic law, but equally those human rights issues found in Muslim societies that stem from various other sources such as socio-economic and political factors, as well the interaction and intersections of the two areas. MWJHR welcomes submissions that apply the traditional human right framework in their analysis as well as those that transcend the boundaries of contemporary scholarship in this regard. Further, the journal also welcomes inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches to the study of human rights in the Muslim world in an effort to encourage the emergence of new methodologies in the field. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights recognizes that several highly contested debates in the field of human rights have been reflected in the Muslim world but have frequently taken on their own particular manifestation in accordance with the varying contexts of contemporary Muslim societies.
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