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'''Methods of Artificial Reproduction''' (in Arabic: [[:fa:وسائل_الانجاب_الصناعیة_(کتاب)|وسائل الانجاب الصناعیة]]) is a book written by | '''Methods of Artificial Reproduction''' (in Arabic: [[:fa:وسائل_الانجاب_الصناعیة_(کتاب)|وسائل الانجاب الصناعیة]]) is a book written by [[MohammadReza Sistani]] that jurisprudentially examines methods of artificial insemination and the jurisprudential effects and rulings related to it. In this book, the author has tried to resolve the jurisprudential challenges facing artificial insemination and to answer the questions raised regarding the permissibility of artificial insemination or its consequences through analytical reasoning (ijtihad). After examining the reasons presented to prove the forbiddance of artificial insemination, he writes that among the various methods of artificial insemination, it is only forbidden to inseminate the egg with the sperm or stem cell of a stranger (non-mahram) man. To prove this forbiddance, he argues based on the Irtikāz of Muslims (what promptly appears as true to Muslims based on their background of religious knowledge) . Also, this ruling is only a defining law and the child resulting from artificial insemination is always a legitimate child. MohammadReza Sistani is the son of Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sīstānī, and one of the prominent professors of principles of jurisprudence at the Najaf seminary. This book is one of the pioneering and important works on jurisprudential examination of artificial insemination, which was published in 2007 by Dār al-Muvarrikh al-Arabi publishing house in Beirut. | ||
== Brief introduction of the book == | == Brief introduction of the book == | ||
The book Vasā’il al-Injāb al-Ṣanā‘īyyah is written by | The book Vasā’il al-Injāb al-Ṣanā‘īyyah is written by MohammadReza Sistani, who has examined and researched the effects of and rulings related to artificial insemination from the perspective of Shia jurisprudence through analytical reasoning (ijtihadi approach). Contents of the book are not compiled based on the common research structure; rather, the writing style is closer to the methods of presentation of the lessons of the highest level courses of the seminary. The topics of the book are organized in three main chapters and a sub-chapter titled appendices. In the first chapter, the legitimacy of different methods of artificial insemination, in the second chapter, issues related to the implementation process of artificial insemination, such as the rulings on touch and looking [at a non-mahram person], and in the third chapter, jurisprudential consequences after pregnancy through artificial insemination have been discussed and investigated. It is noteworthy that the author has also dealt with hypothetical forms in the jurisprudential examination of the problem and has not sufficed with studying the existing methods; for example, pregnancy through maternal stem cell transplantation or egg insemination with plant sperm have also been discussed. At the end of the book, he has written a section titled appendices, in which he has provided explanations about some principles of jurisprudence or the authorities used in the book, such as the rule of the bed (farāsh), examining the reliability of hadith narrators and investigating the authenticity of hadith books. [https://alfeker.net/library.php?id=3770 See the book here]. | ||
=== Claims === | === Claims === | ||
The author is of the opinion that the child born from artificial insemination is no different to the child born from natural pregnancy and belongs to the owner of the uterus and the owner of the sperm (p. 417). Also, among the various methods of artificial insemination, only in case if the woman’s egg is fertilized with the sperm or stem cell of a non-mahram man, the artificial insemination is not permissible. From the author's point of view, the only reason that can be cited for the forbiddance of this presumption is the irtikāz of Muslims, and other jurisprudential evidence do not indicate its forbiddance (p. 67). It should be mentioned that the effects of a pregnancy resulting from fornication do not apply to illegal artificial insemination, and the child resulting from that is considered a legitimate child (p. 14). | The author is of the opinion that the child born from artificial insemination is no different to the child born from natural pregnancy and belongs to the owner of the uterus and the owner of the sperm (p. 417). Also, among the various methods of artificial insemination, only in case if the woman’s egg is fertilized with the sperm or stem cell of a non-mahram man, the artificial insemination is not permissible. From the author's point of view, the only reason that can be cited for the forbiddance of this presumption is the irtikāz of Muslims, and other jurisprudential evidence do not indicate its forbiddance (p. 67). It should be mentioned that the effects of a pregnancy resulting from fornication do not apply to illegal artificial insemination, and the child resulting from that is considered a legitimate child (p. 14). | ||