University of Tehran Press Classical and Contemporary Islamic Studies 3060-7337 3 2 2021 07 01 Motherhood Duties and Child Custody Right in Islamic Jurisprudence وظایف مادری و حق حضانت کودک در فقه اسلامی 295 306 82169 EN Sa‘īd Naẓarī Tawakullī Associate Professor Department of Jurisprudence and the Principles of the Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2021 06 27 According to the teachings of the Qur'ān, the mother is obliged to breastfeed her baby up to ‎‎twenty-one months ‎after the baby’s birth. It is clear, however, that besides feeding on milk, the baby ‎‎needs certain care to keep on nourishing; ‎and this care is to be performed, in normal ‎‎circumstances, by someone who has the strongest emotional and physical ‎relationship with that baby. The issue of custody, which regards the question on who is responsible for this, is brought up ‎when parents are divorced; but in case of continued matrimony, this issue is out of the discussion ‎because ‎the ‎parents cooperate in taking care of their child. The custody of the child, although ‎after being ‎weaned, is the main ‎responsibility of the father; however, the mother is also given the ‎right to ‎undertake this responsibility up to when ‎the child is seven if so she wishes, irrespective ‎of the child's ‎gender. https://jcis.ut.ac.ir/article_82169_ee6fb1c7e6791031d026fd148e79a7c9.pdf