Ruhollah Akrami
Abstract
Proof of sexual crimes discussed under the prescribed punishment, including adultery in Islamic jurisprudence, is subject to certain restrictive rules. One of the important issues in this regard is the ability to prove this crime based on the pregnancy of a woman who cannot be attributed to a legal ...
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Proof of sexual crimes discussed under the prescribed punishment, including adultery in Islamic jurisprudence, is subject to certain restrictive rules. One of the important issues in this regard is the ability to prove this crime based on the pregnancy of a woman who cannot be attributed to a legal marriage. According to Imamia jurisprudence and the majority of Sunni jurisprudential Schools, pregnancy does not suffice to prove a crime. However, Maliki and a minority of Hanbali jurists have considered pregnancy as one of the other shreds of evidence for adultery punishable by prescribed punishment. The differences in these jurisprudential approaches have affected the criminal justice systems of Islamic countries. Some countries, influenced by Maliki's jurisprudence, have considered pregnancy as one of the shreds of evidence for adultery. Although some did not consider it to be proof of prescribed punishment, they ruled that the accused could be punished through Ta'zir. Another group considers pregnancy to be out of pieces of evidence that can lead to punishment. In the present paper, with a descriptive-analytical method, while explaining the jurisprudential theories in this field and evaluating their reasons, we have examined the position of the legal and judicial system of several Islamic countries in this field.
Ruhollah Akrami
Abstract
Rupture of the spleen is one of the most common internal injuries caused by accidents which eventually leads to the removal of the organ from the victim's body. No special text on Jurisprudential sources of such compensation has come down to us. However, some general narratives suggesting full ...
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Rupture of the spleen is one of the most common internal injuries caused by accidents which eventually leads to the removal of the organ from the victim's body. No special text on Jurisprudential sources of such compensation has come down to us. However, some general narratives suggesting full compensation of the single's body organs has been generalized by many Jurists to internal organs including the spleen. The Islamic Penal Code (2013. art. 563) also put emphasis on this criterion about internal organs. There was a great unanimity in the courts’ sentences regarding the interpretation of given article on damage to spleen. This disagreement led to the issuance of Order of Precedent N.740 by the General Board of the Supreme Court and as a consequence, lower courts were obliged to exclude the blood money of spleen from art.563. This essay, has discussed this comparative approach from the perspective of Imamiyyah Shiite and Sunnite Jurisprudence considering the jurisprudential principles and reasons relating to compensation of spleen and come to the result that the theory of spleen's full compensation has a stronger legal backing. Moreover, from a legal point of view, it is doubtless that given art also include the compensation for the spleen.
