Islam's position on freedom according to John Stuart Mill

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  • خالد عبد العزيز السيف السيف

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51930/jcois.2021.67.462-502

Keywords:

Freedom, freedom of opinion, freedom in Islam, John Stuart Mill

Abstract

The issue of freedom is the most prominent and distinctive issue of Western thought, which it reached after a long struggle. The English thinker John Stuart Mill is considered the most prominent Western thinker who elaborated on the issue of freedom, until his ideas on the issue of freedom became the semi-final formula for issues of freedom in Western thought, which revolve in their entirety on The individual has complete freedom as long as it does not harm others, and this freedom is controlled by law.

And if the freedoms he offered were not considered an achievement in Western thought; Freedom in Islam is a central and fundamental issue, and the details of freedoms in Islam have not been accomplished by anyone, but rather came through the correct Sharia texts, and Islamic Sharia is a control for it, and the controls provided by Sharia on the subject of freedom are more accurate and disciplined than the freedom presented by Mill, and in this research a reading of freedom Which was brought by Mill compared to Islam

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2021-09-30

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Islam’s position on freedom according to John Stuart Mill. (2021). Journal Islamic Sciences College, 67, 462-502. https://doi.org/10.51930/jcois.2021.67.462-502