Artificial intelligence (AI) raises questions about its relationship with religion. Shiite scholars have studied its impact on religious sciences, including jurisprudence. Advanced courses have addressed AI’s role in education, stock market transactions, judging, and its jurisprudential implications. A course on AI responsibility explores scenarios where AI is accountable for its actions, considering self-learning capabilities.
The jurisprudence of ethics is an emerging field that addresses moral duties and requires precise definition. It aims to apply ijtihād in ethical issues, clarify the relationship between jurisprudence and ethics, and examine moral qualities and behaviors. A specific course in 2023 focuses on the moral vice of ʿujb, considering its common occurrence and destructive effects.
Fiqh al-tarbiya is an Islamic jurisprudence branch focusing on education, training, and upbringing. It explores principles and regulations for nurturing individuals within an Islamic framework. This field addresses pedagogical methods, curriculum design, and educator responsibilities. Fiqh al-tarbiya aims to integrate Islamic teachings into education, guiding practices accordingly.
Jurisprudential issues are traditionally divided into acts of worship and transactions. The first category includes acts like prayer and fasting, while the second category involves commercial transactions. New contracts, known as “al-ʿuqūd al-mustaḥditha,” have emerged due to evolving transactions. These contracts, such as insurance, Islamic banking, and stock exchange, are important in today’s economy. In a specific course on goodwill, or “sarquflī,” taught by Shaykh Muḥammad Taqī Shahīdī, the definition, background, legitimacy, and conditions of the sarquflī contract are discussed.
Political jurisprudence is a branch of Islamic jurisprudence that deals with the Islamic laws and regulations regarding political issues, including communication between citizens, the relationship between the government and citizens, and the relations between an Islamic state and other governments. The course, which is held at the Dar al-Shifa Seminary School in Qom, Iran, is taught by Ayatollah Abolqasim Alidoust, a renowned Iranian scholar, Fiqh professor and jurist at the Research Institute of Islamic Culture and Thought. The course covers topics such as various political systems, the rights and duties of the government and citizens, and foreign policy, and draws on the principles of both Sunni and Shia political jurisprudence. Professor Alidoust has written extensively on the subject and has a long history of studying and teaching Islamic jurisprudence.
An advanced course on the jurisprudence of social relations from the Islamic point of view.
Among the critical issues for the survival of human beings and the life of human societies are the problems of ownership, responsibility, and rights, to which all schools of thought attach great importance.
In this course, the performance of the stock exchange has been analyzed from a jurisprudential point of view.
An advanced course that examines whether the principle of money creation, in the sense currently used by banks, is acceptable to Shari’a or not?
“Darshayi az usul-i din” is a concise book on the fundamental tenets of Shii Islam, covering topics such as monotheism, prophethood, imamate, and the afterlife. It was initially published as correspondence courses and later became a popular pocket-size book. Its accessible language makes it suitable for translation into other languages.
