In this article, the author examines two considerations that are critical to a full and meaningful assessment of the degree to which Islam, and Islamic law in particular, can find authentic expressions of themselves under what may reasonably be considered a democratic form of government. The first of these has to do with the scope of Islamic law, or more properly, the scope of the interpretive ...

according to the most famous decrees from shia and sunni islamic jurists the blood money for a woman is half of that for a man. the islamic sentencing act which endorses this is derived from shia school of jurisprudence (article 300). the advocates of such ruling rely on some islamic texts but some of the sunni and shia jurists argue for equality between man and woman. this group of jurists, re...

one of the possessions that the mortgage, from the viewpoint of his actual right may do is the sale of the object pledged. dispensing with the well- known idea of the islamic jurists and the jurists that they believe that the sale is not binding but with, study some of the islamic ideas and articles 794 and 793 of code civil it seems that the sale of the object pledged is not harmful for mortag...

the opinion of islamic jurists are different on the subject off inheritance of diya'(blood money). on the other hand, the matter of inheritance of diya' has important legal effects from the viewpoint of tort law and general theory of obligations. these are the main questions: who are the heirs of diya'? does homicide by error, like murder, is an impediment to inheritance of diya&...

Islamic medical jurisprudence, which is the subjectconcemed with the application of Islamic laws to the area of medicine, has never been discussed as an independent field of jurisprudence, although several selected topics, especially those concerning food and beverages, sexuality, death, wounds and injuries, and doctor-patient relations have been more discussed than others. The results of a...

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...

the applicability of executing the qiṣāṣ punishment through donation of organs is a novel topic and at the same time influential in safeguarding the blessings of human health and life. the legitimacy of this procedure requires delving into legal views and opinions. the renowned majority of imāmī jurists believe that the procedure of executing punishment in blood-vengeance has no topicality (rel...