A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CHRISTIANITY (CATHOLICISM) AND ISLAM (SUNNISM)

Abstract

This article provides a comparative theological analysis of the concept of property in Christianity and Islam, which are considered world religions. This topic is highly relevant today, as conflicts and disagreements between world religions are increasing. Consequently, scientific studies that help foster mutual understanding are in great demand. Property relations are both socioeconomically and legal. The same type of relationships that appear when property owners begin production, distribution, exchange and consumption of limited resources and material assets manifests the same as socioeconomic relations and property relations. For these reasons, the formation and development of property relations and effective mechanisms of its institutional regula- tion in modern society are important. This article describes and evaluates various theoretical and methodological approaches to this problem. The novelty of this research lies in the lack of significant theological works based on systematic comparative analysis. This article will mainly use the text of the Bible and Koran and examines Catholicism as the most active direction of Christianity in international relations participation, and the madhhab of the Hanafi direction of Islam as the school of the majority of Sunni Mus- lims. Consideration of the formation and development of the problem of property justification will allow us to understand the reasons, sources of formation and reproduction of the specifics of the value content of Christian and Islamic consciousness concerning property and wealth.