Contemporary Jurisprudence

Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Dr. Ali Sharifi, in an exclusive interview with Contemporary Jurisprudence:

Judicial Practical Principles/21

Note: Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Dr. Ali Sharifi, born in 1353 solar hijri (1974 CE) in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, has, in addition to many years of participation in advanced (khārij) classes in jurisprudence and principles at the Qom Seminary, earned his PhD …

Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Mohammad Jalili Shahmansouri, in an Exclusive Interview with Contemporary Jurisprudence:

The Right to Human Dignity and Equality from the Perspective of Jurisprudence/13

Note: The right to human equality, while appearing self-evident at first glance, proves to be deceptively simple upon closer examination. The critical question is whether, given the diverse aptitudes and capacities of human beings across different ages and genders, equality is …

Dr. Mahmoud Hekmatnia, in an Exclusive Interview with Contemporary Jurisprudence:

Judicial Practical Principles/20

Note: Dr. Mahmoud Hekmatnia is one of the nation’s most long-standing and prominent jurists. A professor at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought (IICT), he spoke with Contemporary Jurisprudence in an exclusive interview about the position of usul amaliyyah (practical principles) …

Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Alireza Mohammadi, in an Exclusive Interview with Contemporary Jurisprudence:

Judicial Practical Principles/19

Note: Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Alireza Mohammadi has been a prominent figure in the Dars-e Kharij (Advanced Research Studies) of Jurisprudence and Legal Principles at the Qom Seminary for many years and serves as a professor of high-level seminary curricula. Born in 1976 in …

Abdolvahab Forati

Analysis of Contemporary Jurisprudence Based on a Minimalist Approach to Fiqh/12

Note: “Minimalist Jurisprudence” and “Maximalist Jurisprudence” (Fiqh-e Hadaqsari) are two terms used so frequently that even non-experts in jurisprudence use them. The maximalist approach to jurisprudence seeks to discover all rulings for the day’s issues of society from the science of …

Mohammad Javad Ahmadkhani

Judicial Practical Principles/18

Note: The conflict of Principle (Asl) and Appearance (Zahir), despite seemingly being a clear matter, has numerous hidden dimensions, the first of which is the definition of these two concepts. Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Mohammad Javad Ahmadkhani, a professor of the Advanced …

Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Dr. Saeed Farahani Fard, in an Exclusive Interview with Contemporary Jurisprudence, Examined:

Governance in the Preservation and Protection of Natural Resources from the Perspective of Imami Jurisprudence/8

Note: Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Dr. Saeed Farahani Fard, although more famous for economics, has been teaching and researching in the field of natural resources for years. The Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at the University of Qom, …

Aminollah Amini

Judicial Practical Principles/17

Note: Practical Principles (Usul-e Amaliyyah) have long been the four principles of Exemption (Bara’ah), Precaution (Ihtiyat), Presumption of Continuity (Istishab), and Choice (Takhyir), which have been discussed in the science of Principles (Usul) and used in various jurisprudential chapters. The application …

Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Gholam-Ali Masoumi-Nia, in an Exclusive Interview with Contemporary Jurisprudence:

Jurisprudential Aspects of Public Participation in the Economy/11

Note: Hujjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Gholam-Ali Masoumi-Nia, in addition to teaching and researching in the field of Islamic economics for several decades, has also seriously entered the field of research on the subject of “Economic Democratization” (Mardomi-sazi-ye Eqtesad) for several years. We …

Mojtaba Khandan

Principles of the Jurisprudence of Education/11

Note: The relationship between jurisprudence (Fiqh) and upbringing (Tarbiat) in Islam is a long-standing matter, and almost all jurisprudence researchers agree on the point that Islamic rulings are not merely dry laws for administering human society; rather, God Almighty, in enacting …