An Exploration of the Inclusion of Concepts of Human Rights in the Hadith Course at Secondary School Level of the Courses-Based Track in Saudi Arabia in Light of the Human Rights Declaration of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: Content-Analysis Study

Abstract

The study aims at finding out the extent to which human rights concepts are included in the content of the Hadith course taught at the courses-based secondary schools, as stipulated in the Human Rights Declaration Document of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

The corpus of the study consists of all the content of the Hadith course taught on the general program at the courses-based secondary schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The material was printed for the academic year (1434/1435 H). The content of this course was analyzed according to the list of a set of refereed concepts in light of the Human Rights Declaration of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

The analysis shows that the human rights concepts that need to be included in the Islamic courses were 94 concepts. The concepts that were found in the Hadith course were 24 (25.53%), while the concepts which were not found in this course were 70 (74.47%). These concepts are distributed in an imbalanced way and with different percentages.

The chief recommendations and suggestions of the study are: a) the importance of including the concepts based on the Human Rights Declaration of GCC in the rest of Islamic courses, (Tawheed (monotheism), Fiqh (jurisprudence), and Tafseer (Exegesis), which are taught on the general program at courses-based secondary schools, b) the importance of conducting more studies on all Islamic courses taught at courses-based secondary schools in order to find out which concepts are included and which are not.