former supreme court judge C .G. Weeramantry honored with gold medals by Jamiyyathul Ulama
Former supreme court judge Christopher Gregory Weeramantry was awarded two Gold Medals by All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama for his book on Islamic Jurisprudence he wrote the ‘Islamic Jurisprudence: An International Perspective’ in 1996, the ceremony held in Colombo last week the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama President Mufthi M.I.M. Rizwe honored him with gold medals and words of praise , Rizwe Mufthi said the book covers and presents the true nature of Islamic Jurisprudence and praised him for the writing such wonderful book covers all aspects of Jurisprudence system and development
Christopher Gregory Weeramantry -born 17 November 1926 in Colombo, Sri Lanka- was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka from 1967 to 1972. He was a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1991 to 2000, and was Vice-President of the ICJ from 1997 to 2000. He presided in his capacity as Vice-President of the ICJ over several important cases before the Court, including a case on the illegality of the use and threatened use of nuclear weapons. Judge Weeramantry serves on the Legal and Human Rights Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute. He is currently Emeritus Professor at Monash University, having previously served as Sir Hayden Starke’s Chair of Law from 1972 to 1991. Furthermore he is the president of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. In addition C.G. Weeramantry is a councillor of the World Future Council
He Describes about his book in the back cover: “Islamic jurisprudence is a much misunderstood system. This misunderstanding is due to lack of information and to centuries of prejudice. This book seeks to present information, not at present available in a single work, on the pioneering efforts of Islamic jurists to develop a comprehensive body of human rights principles and practice, as well as a corpus of international law principles. The attempt to develop such international law principles long anticipated any similar work in other legal or cultural systems. Human rights doctrine based upon the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet was expressed in terms which will strike the reader as surpassingly modern. In international law, Islamic treatises anticipated the work of Grotius by eight centuries. This systematic exposition, not attempted before in such detail, will be of interest not only to the Islamic world, but also to philosophers, historians, sociologists and political scientists world-wide. All students of international affairs would likewise benefit from this book.”
