Category: Islamic Law
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Equality of Blood Money of Man and Woman in Islamic Teachings
According to a widely accepted and traditional fatwa ruling in Islamic jurisprudence, the blood money of a woman is half that of a man. This book critically analyzes this fatwa and argues in favor of equal blood money for both men and women. In line with the findings of this study, different fiqhi approaches have…
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The Public-Private Dichotomy And Islamic Hermeneutical Implications
This article studies public-private dichotomy from an Islamic Perspective.
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Capital Punishment: An Islamic Perspective
This article argues in favor of a very minimalistic approach to death penalty from an Islamic perspective.
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An Examination of the Jurisprudential Theory of the Intrinsic Filth of a Person Born of Illicit Intercourse
AbstractAccording to some Imamiyah jurists, bastard (a child born of zina) is created with an impure nature. There are some narratives about this belief. These narratives have influenced the inference of bastard rulings from jurisprudential sources. Some jurists, in order to justify discriminatory rulings in the field of inheritance, judgment, martyrdom, authority, Friday prayer Imam…
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An Analytical-Critical Investigation of Differences Between Had and Ta’zir
An Analytical-Critical Investigation of Differences Between Had and Ta’zir Rahim Nobahar(PhD), Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University According to the basic rules of Islamic criminal law, punishments are classified in to “had” (prescribed punishment fixed in law) and ta’zir (discretionary punishment left to the decision of the judge). In traditional view, it is believed that…