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Contemporary Issues in Criminal Jurisprudence

Course Description: To understand the meaning of contemporary jurisprudential issues in the fiqh of crimes and how to conceptualize them and research their rulings in light of the principles of Islamic jurisprudence.

Credits: 2

Objectives of the course :

– Introduce the student to contemporary jurisprudential issues in the jurisprudence of felonies and judiciary.
To equip students with the skill of jurisprudential derivation for contemporary issues in the jurisprudence of penal law and judiciary, how to conceptualize them, and how to research their rulings in light of Islamic legal principles.
Extracting Contemporary Issues in Criminal Law According to the Principles of Jurisprudence Schools of Thought.
- Weighing different scholarly opinions on jurisprudential issues where there is disagreement.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1- To clarify the jurisprudential rulings on contemporary issues.
Skills:
1. To portray contemporary jurisprudential issues and incidents in the jurisprudence of criminal offenses and judgment as they truly are.
2. To apply jurisprudential rulings to contemporary issues and events, the jurisprudence of crimes and judgment.
3. To derive legal rulings for contemporary issues and events, focusing on the jurisprudence of felonies and judiciary.
4. To connect the study of contemporary jurisprudential issues, penal jurisprudence, and judiciary to the objectives of Sharia.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
1- Demonstrate Islamic principles and values in jurisprudential disagreement and dialog with others.
2- Practicing and managing teamwork efficiently and effectively.
3- Utilize technical, mathematical and numerical skills in jurisprudential matters and scientific research.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
First: In felonies:
– Contemporary images of murder.
– Updated photos of the fetus's encroachment.
– Anesthetizing the offender during the execution.
– The ability to punish non-joint-related offenses without bias.
Contemporary means of executing the death penalty.
– Restore what was cut in the excerpt.
– Euthanasia
– Liability in traffic accidents.
– Blood money amounts in the modern world.
– The government and the slave whom the blood money is paid for.
– Excessive compensation for intentional homicide.
– The absence of the neck for which expiation is due.
– Causing infertility.
Forensic evidence.
– The System of Al-Aqila in the Modern World.
Human organ trafficking.
– Bearing the costs of the victim's treatment.
– Compensation for the victim’s damages (medical treatment, lost wages, and emotional distress).
– Proving adultery through DNA testing.
– Updated psychotropic drugs, their ruling, and trafficking in them.
– Local anesthesia.
– Online theft.
– Website monitoring
– Violation of intellectual and commercial rights.
– Modern forgery crimes.
– Investment of funds.
– Money laundering
– Mental illnesses and their effect on increasing punishment.
– Contemporary applications in evidence (DNA, its purpose and impact on evidence; genetic fingerprinting, its purpose and impact on evidence).
– E-courts.
– Taking the exam via modern communication technologies.
Important note: The course instructor will select at least 12 cases to teach from the mentioned cases, and may also select other emerging cases. The mentioned cases are for illustrative purposes only and not exhaustive.

Last updated: 2026-06-03