BACKGROUND Islam acknowledges that infertility is a significant hardship. Attempts to cure infertility are not only permissible, but also encouraged in Islam. Over the last three decades, a multitude of advances in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have appeared. This review was carried out to inform readers, who are not familiar with Islamic doctrine, about the Sunni perspective on thi...

concerning wudu (minor ablution), there are different views among the schools of islamic jurisprudence. it is to be confessed that the holy qur’an has explicitly talked about minor ablution. the disagreement, however, of the qaris (those who recite the qur’an) on how to recite the related verses, gave rise to different understandings and diverse legal fatwas on the issue. the verses of minor ab...

Sunnism constitutes eighty percent of the Islamic world. The most academic and renowned religious seminary in the Sunni world is Al-Azhar University in Egypt, and it is from here that most verdicts on novel issues such as human cloning are decreed and disseminated throughout the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. The perspective of this seminary and of other significant Sunni jurisprudential counc...