Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Investigating the minimum and maximum age of puberty from Imami-Hanafi and medical sciences

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Mehrali Rakhshanifar 1
Gholamhasan Delavar 2
Amirhamzeh Salarzayi 3
1 PhD student in Islamic law and jurisprudence, Islamic jurisprudence and law department of Zahedan branch, Islamic Azad University of Zahedan, Iran
2 Assistant Professor of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
3 Professor of Islamic jurisprudence and law, Islamic jurisprudence and law department, Sistan and Baluchestan State University, Zahedan, Iran
10.22038/mjms.2020.19840
Abstract
The phenomenon of maturity in jurisprudence plays an important role, because it is the source of the beginning of religious duties and legal obligations. The issue of puberty is one of the controversial issues in jurisprudence. One of the most important stages of human natural development is puberty, with which God Almighty has assigned duties to human beings, and due to its importance, natural and religious signs for puberty have been expressed. Shiite and Sunni jurists have been studying this issue for many years and have come to the conclusion that the signs and symptoms of puberty are different in girls and boys. Of course, some of those symptoms are common between girls and boys, but menstruation and pregnancy are specific signs of puberty in girls. The age of puberty between girls and boys is a point of contention for jurists. The source of the differences between these sayings in different jurisprudential religions is the differences between the narrations and the texts that have reached us from the leaders of the religions. In this article, we will examine the jurisprudence and medicine of puberty.
Keywords
puberty
age
growth
Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 62, Issue 5.1
November and December 2019