The paradox of legality-vis-à-vis morality in contemporary Islamic law: an analysis of the Sunni legal debate on sex selection

This paper discusses the issue of dislocation of morality from legality in the predominant jursitci legal stand on sex selection among the contemporary Sunni Muslim legists. Similar to Western divide between positivist school and natural law advocates on the legality of some biomedical issues, suc...

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Main Author: Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LexisNexis 2017
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/58920/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/58920/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/58920/1/58920_The%20paradox%20of%20legality-vis-%C3%A0-vis%20morality.pdf