Comparative Study: Children Rights in the Islamic Thought, International Legislations and Culture

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the child rights culture that the Islamic

educational thought gives to children based on the Quran and Sunnah, in

contrast with the international legislations represented in the convention on

the rights of the child 1989, and the common thought in the Islamic society

amongst the child educators such as parents and teachers. The study aims

also to developing a list of the rights of the child to be standardized later

to examine the child rights culture for those educators. The study revealed

plenty of child rights that the Islamic thought gives in meeting children needs.

Hence, the study concludes that Islam has got unlimited number of child rights,

and the convention on the rights of the child covered the whole aspects of life

but less comprehensive than what were got by the Islamic thought. Moreover,

most of the common thought was incompatible with the true Islamic thought,

in addition to the deduction of a behavioral list to examine the culture of

child rights among educators. Accordingly, a number of recommendations

are suggested such as designing a systematic model for the rights of the child,

and categorizing child rights in Islam and in the international legislations.