What is it about?
One may think that the Arabic-Islamic scholars in pre modern times generally damned the use of narcotics due to their intoxicating quality. But a closer look into the subject matter tells us, that there was a great variety of opinions on it and that, as time went on, more and more particular questions came up and needed to be answered my jurists. This article focuses particularly on that variety and by carefully sorting them and putting them side by side it completes our picture of the juridical discussion on narcotics.
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Why is it important?
In presenting the many different juridical standpoints on the subject at hand and the many questions that needed answers, it becomes quite obvious that there was not one general prohibition of narcotics. Every standpoint was considered and discussed and even two jurists from the same juridical background would sometimes not agree with each other. This article gives an insight into these discussions and clearly shows how diverse the answers to the pressing questions concerning use and abuse of narcotics were.
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Writing the article was pretty hard, because there are a lot of aspects to be considered and a lot of standpoints referring to each of them. By presenting all the different standpoints and aspects, though, at least a complete picture could have emerged.
Dr. Thomas Thiemann
Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster
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This page is a summary of: Betäubungsmittel im juristischen Diskurs, January 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004722385_005.
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