Seyed Sajad Izdehi
Abstract
Shi’i jurisprudence has been
always updating and modernized, and provided replies for the needs of time.
After victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and because of necessity of
serious developments required by emergent needs, it has taken essential steps
to study issues concerning religious government, and provided replies for
various problems in the scope of management of political system, and it is
still going in this way. Success in this way depends upon development in
various fields of jurisprudence among which issues such as “necessity of
rereading ends and objectives of jurisprudence”, “development in
methodology of ijtihad”, “development of juridical resources”,
“attention to professional study of subjects in inference”, and
“professionalization of various fields of jurisprudence” may be
mentioned. Taking into account the above issues, the present article has
discussed modernization in jurisprudence in the present time and its
requirements.
