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Management of the dead from the Islamic law and international humanitarian law perspectives: Considerations for humanitarian forensics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2018

Ahmed Al-Dawoody
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Abstract

This article discusses a number of contemporary issues and challenges pertinent to the management of the dead in contemporary armed conflicts and other situations of violence and natural disasters under Islamic law and international humanitarian law. Among the issues and challenges faced by forensic specialists in Muslim contexts at present are collective burial, quick burial of dead bodies, exhumation of human remains, autopsy, burial at sea, and handling of the bodies by the opposite sex. The article concludes that both legal systems have developed rules which aim at the protection of the dignity and respect of dead bodies, and that they complement each other to achieve this protection in specific Muslim contexts. The main objectives of this article are twofold: firstly, to give an overview of the Islamic law position on these specific questions and challenges, in order to, secondly, provide some advice or insight into how forensic specialists can deal with them.

Keywords

management of the deaddecent burialautopsycollective gravesburial at seaIslamIslamic lawinternational humanitarian lawIslamic law and IHLjihadIslamic law of armed conflictwar in Islamic lawforensicshumanitarian forensics
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 99 , Issue 905: The missing , August 2017 , pp. 759 - 784
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The views expressed in this article are those of the author and should not be interpreted as official positions of the ICRC. The author would like to thank the anonymous peer reviewers, Sarah Gale, Dr. Ayman Shaban, Oran Finegan, Ellen Policinski and Yarimar C. Ruiz Orozco for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article.

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86 For example, the Islamic Code of Medical Ethics, promulgated by the First International Conference on Islamic Medicine in Kuwait in 1981; the Code of Ethics of the Medical Profession in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and the Code of Ethics of the Medical Profession in Egypt.

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91 A. Al-Dawoody, above note 50; see also: www.fatawah.net/Fatawah/434.aspx.

92 Majma‘ al-Fiqh al-Islāmī, above note 88, p. 412.

93 R. C. Rabin, above note 85.

94 Ibid.

95 Muḥammad al-‘Arabī al-Qarawī, Al-Khulāṣah al-Fiqhiyyah ‘alā Madhhab al-Sādah al-Mālikiyyah, Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, p. 157; ‘A. ibn al-Saḥaybānī, above note 35, p. 43; www.sistani.org/english/book/48/2189/.

96 While some sources say that he died in 663–4, other sources say that he died in 671.

97 See Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d, Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, Vol. 3, Dār Ṣādr, Beirut, p. 507; M. Al-Nawawī, above note 3, Vol. 5, p. 244; ‘A. ibn al-Saḥaybānī, above note 35, p. 43.

98 ‘A. ibn al-Saḥaybānī, above note 35, pp. 43–45.

99 See: www.sistani.org/english/book/48/2189/.

100 See, e.g., Ian Black and Brian Whitaker, “Sea Burial of Osama bin Laden Breaks Sharia Law, Say Muslim Scholars”, The Guardian, 2 May 2011, available at: www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/02/sea-burial-osama-bin-laden.

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102 Ibid.

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