Dr. Rafiq Radwan, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Islamic University, published two research papers in scientific journals indexed in the Scopus database.
The first study, entitled “Psychological Purposes in the Legal Provisions of Marriage,” was published in the Journal of Positive School Psychology. It aimed to manifest the most important psychological purposes of the legal provisions of marriage by explaining what is meant by psychological purposes and their position among the purposes of Islamic Sharia, and then clarifying the most important psychological purposes that the provisions of marriage sought to achieve. The study concluded with a number of results, the most important of which is that psychological purposes are the goals that Islamic law intended from the provisions of marriage; caring for human beings, their instincts, and feelings.
Dr. Essam Shrair, Assistant Professor of Jurisprudence and its Origins at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, participated in the preparation of the research.
The second study, entitled “Protecting the Right to Water in Palestine in Islamic Sharia and Law,” was published in the Seybold Report journal. It aimed at knowing how to protect water rights in Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, in accordance with Islamic Sharia and law, by clarifying the concept of the right to water in Islamic Sharia and law, and investigating the reality of the right to water in Palestine and ways to protect it in Islamic Sharia and law.
The study concluded that Sharia and law pay attention to the provisions of water and the prevention of pollution as well as the depletion of its sources, and the state has a major role in setting preventive and penal deterrent measures that guarantee the protection of the right to water.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Aweiti, Assistant Professor of International Law at Palestinian universities, participated in the preparation of the research.
