Motherhood Duties and Child Custody Right in Islamic Jurisprudence

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Associate Professor Department of Jurisprudence and the Principles of the Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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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.

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Classical and Contemporary Islamic Studies (formerly known as Journal of Contemporary Islamic Studies)
Volume 3, Issue 2
Summer & Autumn
July 2021
Pages 295-306

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