Ethics of Neighboring and neighbor's rights in the Islamic Architecture and Urbanism

System of Islamic architecture and urbanism has formed in the context of world view and Islamic culture. Ethics and rights with the claim of arising from culture, tradition and Islamic law include a wide series of issues about living with neighbors. Strong neighborly relations and respecting the right of neighbors has been part of social life in traditional neighborhood in Iran architecture and urbanism; but in contemporary architecture the neighborly relations have been changed. By examining what is happening today in cities of Iran, we can see a kind of abdication from ancient and rich cultural values of inhabitant of this land. Thus the article by examining the implications associated with neighbors and neighbors` right in Islam, seeks to analyze and interpret the realization of that in the body of Islamic architecture and urbanism. The research method is descriptive-analytic. In this study, common ways of data collection such as documentary and field methods have been adapted. The results show, ethics and rights of neighboring have been the most important and constant principle of traditional architecture and urbanism. The realization of concepts in architecture and urbanism, such as security, creating emotional ties with neighbor, observing the boundaries of life, honor and dignity of neighbor have been the architectural response to the recommendation and orders of Quran, Imams and Islamic teaching about the ethics and observing the right of neighboring.