Huquq
/ħuˈquːq/noun
An Arabic plural meaning rights, entitlements, claims, or dues, used in English mainly in Islamic legal and theological contexts.
Did you know?In Islamic theology, ḥuqūq can distinguish rights owed to God from rights owed to other people, making justice a spiritual as well as legal obligation.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Semitic
Proto-Semitic
*ḥqq
“A reconstructed root associated with being true, firm, fixed, or rightly established.”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
ḥaqq
“Truth, reality, a right, a rightful claim, or something due.”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
ḥuqūq
“Plural of ḥaqq: rights, claims, dues, or entitlements.”
Medieval Islamic scholarship
Arabic
ḥuqūq Allāh / ḥuqūq al-ʿibād
“Rights owed to God / rights owed to human beings, especially in legal and theological writing.”
20th–21st Century
English
huquq
“A transliterated Arabic term used in English writing on Islamic law, ethics, theology, and human rights.”