The Legal Status of Non-Muslims in the Shiite Fiqh and Iranian Laws (1906-2020)

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52350-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies

This work, a partial history of Iranian laws between 1906 and 2020, demonstrates that the main obstacle to improving the legal status of non-Muslims in Muslim contexts is the fiqhi opinions, which are mistakenly regarded as an integral part of the Islamic faith. It aims to clarify why and how Islamic Shiite rulings about non-Muslims shifted to the Iranian laws and how it is possible to improve the legal status of the Iranian non-Muslims under the Islamic government.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edalatnejad, Saeid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

A Note on Transliterations and Dates

Chronology

Introduction

1 The Status of Non-Muslims in the Shiite Imami School

1 Introduction

2 Sources and Method

3 The Quran and Non-Muslims

4 Legal Shiite Hadiths on Non-Muslims

5 Shiite Fiqh and Non-Muslims

6 Conclusion

2 The Context of Iranian Constitutionalism

1 The Political Context

2 The Socio-Cultural Context

3 The Constitutional Revolution

4 Non-Muslims in Iranian Society

5 Conclusion

3 The Codification of Laws and Regulations (1906–1979)

1 The 1906 Constitution

2 Modifications in the Pahlavi Period (1925–79)

3 The Penal and Civil Codes

4 Conclusion

4 The Codification of Laws and Regulations (1979–2020)

1 Introduction

2 The Formation of the 1979 Constitution

3 The Penal Code

4 The Civil Code

5 Extra Regulations

6 Conclusion

5 Towards a New Ijtihad

1 Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Saeid Edalatnejad, Ph.D. (2009), the Freie Universität Berlin, is an associate professor at the Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation (Tehran). A prolific author in the field of Islamic studies, he has published Creation in the Quran: Hermeneutic Study of the Old and New Exegeses (2013) and has translated and published Thomas A. Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ into Persian (2002).