Ruling on Dissecting a Human Body for Education

Abstract

This research deals with the topic of dissecting for the purpose of education, and aims to explain its ruling from a jurisprudential point of view, with mentioning the evidence for the sayings in it, and then clarifying the most weighing ones.

This research contains an introduction, prelusion and three chapters, then a conclusion with the finest of the research précis. The research follows the inductive-deductive approach in order to reach the ruling of dissecting for the purpose of education.

Among the most important findings in this research: the purposes of autopsy are divided into four sections: forensic, pathological, for the purposes of benefiting from the organs of the corpse, and educational. The most probable ruling of educational anatomy is permissibility; however, it is restricted to the dissection of the corpse of an infidel and the exclusion of the Muslim, except in the case of the absence of a corpse but for a Muslim.