With a Representative Example the Roles of Reason and Emotion in Western and Islamic Legal Systems

Year 2018, Issue: 30, 1 - 9, 30.04.2018

Ahmet Ulvi Türkbağ

https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.410544

Abstract

The core of this study is to show the role of emotion and reason in two
major legal systems, namely the Western and Islamic legal systems. Firstly, I
will portray the two systems without any detail, in order to show emotion and
reason balances in each of them. After that, I will choose a representative example to explain and
state how they follow different roads of approach to reach an understanding of
the balance between reason and emotion. As an assumption, it would be safe to
say Western law is more widely known. Therefore, I will focus primarily on an
illustration from Islamic Law using as my example a facet of   Family law, a special kind of separation
“lian or mulahana” which, I think, clearly represents the outlook of Islamic
law on emotion.  

Keywords

Modern Law, Rationalism, Fiqh, Islamic Family Law, Lian, Emotion and Law

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