S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 6 - 2 Fa l l 2 0 2 0 3 7 Monika Zaviš Acknowledgement The paper originated as a partial outcome of the project VEGA No. 1/0585/18Bioethics of Reproductive Health in Islam: Basis, Discussion and Challenges , conducted at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Notes [1] Besides the proper upbringing that is to be in line with the teaching of the Qur’an, parents had to provide their child with education. Some of them embarked on the journey with their child to find a good teacher, while in - troducing them to the parts of the Qur’an that referred to the specific situation in which they happened to be at any given moment. For financial reasons parents often could not afford to provide their child with the kind of education they desired. If the child was talented, the entire community in different towns supported his study. Upbringing and education were mother’s respon - sibility and they could sacrifice everything to fulfil that role. A great example of a strong-willed and self-giving mother was the mother of Persian Imam al-Bukhari (Zaviš 2013b, 30–32). [2] Incompetent scholars issuing fatwas . An example of this is a suspension of scholar Izzat Atiyya, the head of the Hadith Department at Al-Azhar University in 2007. He issued a controversial fatwadealing with breastfeeding of adults. Lavi, research fellow at The Middle East Media Research Institute – MEMRI, summed the fatwa as follows: “ The fatwa stated that a woman who is required to work in private with a man not of her immediate family – a situation that is forbidden by Islamic law – can resolve the problem by breastfeeding the man, which, according to Shari’a, turns him into a member of her immediate family .” The fatwaprovoked public outrage. It was ordered that the issue of the government weekly Al-Watani Al-Yawm, where the fatwawas published, had to be removed from sellers’ shelves (Lavi 2007). [3] EMRO: Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. [4] OIC: Organization of the Islamic Conference.
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