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...

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 majority of the world’s Muslim population follows the Sunni branch of Islam, and approximately 10-15% of all Muslims follow the Shiite (Shi‘ite, Shi‘a, Shia) branch. Shiite populations constitute a majority in Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, and Azerbaijan. There are also significant Shiite populations in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen. Sunnis and Shiites share ...

The present investigation involves the study of distr ibution of serological tra its (A1A2BO, MN and Rh(D) blood group systems) among Meos and Sunni Muslims and their comparison with other castes of Haryana, which are, Jat, Ahir, Ror, Saini, Kamboj, Kumhar and Chamar. The frequency of different alleles fa lls well within the range of other castes of Haryana. Chi-square values for these blood gr...

BACKGROUND Empirical studies in Muslim communities on organ donation and blood transfusion show that Muslim counsellors play an important role in the decision process. Despite the emerging importance of online English Sunni fatwas, these fatwas on organ donation and blood transfusion have hardly been studied, thus creating a gap in our knowledge of contemporary Islamic views on the subject. M...

To characterize genetically the Muslim population of Punjab, a north–west Indian state, a biochemical genetics investigation using red cell enzyme markers was planned. For this, blood samples from a total of 992 Muslim subjects, belonging to the Sunni (803) and Shia (189) endogamous sects inhabiting Malerkotla town were collected. Haemolysates were analysed for the phenotypes of seven different...

Paul Power’s new book, Intent in Islamic Law, is a challenging and welcome addition to contemporary scholarship on Islamic law and comparative law. Powers examines the way in which the classical Islamic jurists thought about motive, how they thought motive could be identified, and how they thought an actor’s “intent” affected the “legality” of his actions. To accomplish his task, Powers compare...

This research aims to reveal the role of Sunni-Shia Islamic educational institutions in building multiculturalism a pluralistic society. So far, relationship has been depicted conflictual scheme. The method was qualitative from sociology education perspective. Through in-depth interviews, participatory observation and documentation techniques, this study showed that atmosphere peace between Ban...

Abstract The overall intention of the special issue ‘The Dynamics Sunni–Shi‘a Relations in Europe’ is to call for a new research initiative aimed at establishing significance European Muslim-minority contexts study dynamics. This article outlines potential contribute scholarship on sectarianism and literature Muslims Europe. While also previewing five articles included issue, it proposes framew...