Sunni Islam has no supreme legal authority and disagreement by doctors of Islamic law over all issues not clarified by Islamic law is physiological. This is the case with Medically Assisted Reproduction: after an initially critical attitude, tolerance, limited exclusively to homologous practices, is spreading, whilst recourse to heterologous practices is considered on a par with adultery or for...

The present study reports the distribution of ABO blood groups and Rh (D) factor among the Sunni Muslim population of Jaunpur (Uttar Pradesh), north India. The percentage of A (30.5%), B (30%), O (28%) and AB (11.5%) groups and the frequencies of O, A and B alleles were found to be (0.5270, 0.2381, and 0.235, respectively) were similar to previously reported data on ABO system from Jaunpur. The...

This Article is concerned with one key aspect of the law of the military jihad: the Islamic concept of martyrdom [shahada or istishhad]. This Article will demonstrate that the current Islamist financing and systematic organization and direction of self-annihilatory acts of violence is only weakly supported, if at all, by the classical sources on martyrdom in Islamic law and jurisprudence. The A...

in the 2nd half of the 6th century a.h., when the isma'ili caliphate in egypt was in the worst political situation, a series of political sunni figures managed to reach the important position of vizara some times. they, who were sympathetic towards the sunni caliphate of abbasids in baghdad and eventually made the fatimid caliphate to fall, during their vizara for fatimid dynasty, had to h...

This paper reviews the standpoints of Muslim jurists within the Sunni tradition on organ transplantation. Muslim jurists allowed different forms of bone grafts (autograft, allograft and xenograft) for widely broken bones. Ibn Sina in 1037 discussed this subject in Al-Kanoon 1000 years ago. In 1959, the Muftis of Egypt and Tunisia allowed, under specific conditions, corneal transplants from dead...

Eser, tarihsel süreç içinde, kadının toplumsal alandaki statüsünde rol oynayan dinlerin etkilerini inceliyor. İslam inancının kadına ait düşüncelerine yer verirken, tasavvuf gruplarında ve Alevi Bektaşi inancında yerini gelişimini mercek altına alıyor. Büyük bir emek mahsulü olan eser, 272 sayfa olup, beş bölümden oluşmaktadır.Yazar İbrahim Bahadır, Ve Sünni Tekkelerinde Kadın Dervişler adlı ki...