The Shiite school has been the promoter of movements that have stood up to oppression, and this political thought has shaped Shiite political and social movements and movements throughout history. Historically, the turning point of the Shiite revolution and the formation of Shiite protest movements and events is the Ashura event, and the land of Karbala as the holy land of the Shiites and the p...

Theprimary basis of the Islamic Republic of Iran's system is the absoluteVilayat...

Abortion is forbidden under normal circumstances by nearly all the major world religions. Traditionally, abortion was not deemed permissible by Muslim scholars. Shiite scholars considered it forbidden after implantation of the fertilised ovum. However, Sunni scholars have held various opinions on the matter, but all agreed that after 4 months gestation abortion was not permitted. In addition, c...

Judicial decisions (Fatawa) of some of the most learned juridical authorities in the Imamate (Shiite) community (maraja' al-taqlid) of present time on medical issues are examined in this paper. They will provide the reader with the responses of the Islamic jurisprudence to the most involved medical dilemmas. The paper mainly focuses on the rational viewpoints of the Islamic law on permissio...

majority of shi‘a jurists believe in the absoluteunlawfulness of woman’s leaving home withoutpermission of the spouse unless for mandatory duties.following majority’s opinion, a good number of lawyershave maintained that woman’s leaving home withoutpermission of the spouse for any purpose is not allowed.in the present essay, proofs concerning this problem,including qur’anic verses, hadiths, and...

lineage in the islamic law is one of the most basic human rights each individual inherits from his family. when modern assisted reproductive technologies appeared in recent decades, the issue of lineage and the child’s rights did not encounter serious challenges. but with the advent of these technologies, the issue of the child’s lineage resulting from new technologies has become the center of ...

this article discusses the presence of imamiyah - shiism in islamic society. the discussion, especially, gives careful consideration to the relation of imamie religion with all-e booiye, furtheremore the article examines the reasons of the change in all-e booyes religion from zeydi to imamiyah and how this change is related to shiite authorities - fatemian, ghermatian, yaman's zeidian - of...