RT Article
T1 The Equality of Blood Money for Men and Women: Ayatollah Saanei’s Novel Hermeneutic in Gender Equality in Shiite Islam
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 33
IS 1
SP 78
OP 93
A1 Goudarzi, Masoumeh Rad
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1831878992
AB Even though according to the fatwas of Shiite and Sunni jurists, the blood money of a Muslim woman is half that of a Muslim man, Ayatollah Yousuf Saanei, a prominent Iranian jurist, has questioned this famous fatwa for various reasons and voted for equal blood money for men and women. The ruling forced the highly conservative Iranian government to find an executive solution to pay the difference between men and women blood money. Saanei's jurisprudential views show that he emphasizes two theological and epistemological principles, as two pre-jurisprudential principles, for ijtihad in the field of women's jurisprudence: the rule of justice and human equality. In the present study, the researcher intended to evaluate the importance of these two principles and the rational and narrative reasons citing it in his ijtihad method. Moreover, this paper was conducted to determine how he has reevaluated the jurisprudential sources in the light of these two principles.
K1 Islamic penal code
K1 Iran’s justice system
K1 Shiite Islam
K1 Gender Equality
K1 blood money
K1 Ayatollah Yousuf Saanei
DO 10.1080/08974454.2021.1975015