Affiliation:
1. Ricercatore, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Naples Italy
Abstract
Abstract
According to Muslim jurists the body belongs to God, who temporarily lends it to human beings, and therefore cannot be altered, except in the cases expressly provided for (circumcision, application of the ḥudūd punishments, etc.). Modifying the body is prohibited because it would violate its sacredness. The body of the human being is thus inviolable, and it is so both during life but also after death. And it is on the body after death, therefore on the corpse, that this article focuses. Starting with the jurisprudence produced by the Saudi Salafis in the second half of the last century, it reconstructs the rules relating to its ordinary handling and those relating to a specific exception, the autopsy.
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