خلاصه ماشینی:
In the introduction, Chaleby points out that the legal system in most Islamic countries is derived from British or other European legal traditions as a result of colonialism, except in matters of personal status, family relationship, and inheritance laws.
Muslim scholars generally believe that abandoning a sick patient is like committing a sin punishable by God. Another major distinction between secular and Islamic law is that the former considers psychiatric evaluation without accompanying treatment to be "medical practice," while in the latter, evaluation alone is not enough to establish a doctor-patient relationship.
Addressing issues pertinentto the insanity defense and criminal responsibility, chapter 2 points out that the first confirmed insanity acquittal was recorded in western history in the 1500s and that modern secular laws governing insanity were formulated over the last 500 years or less.
The stance finally taken by the American Law Institute on the insanity defense in 1965, which states that a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if it is a result of mental defect or illness, is essentially the same as the Islamic view.
[n secular law, child custody includes legal guardianship.
Islamic law, on the other hand, distinguishes between custody (caring/residential responsibility) and legal guardianship (full responsibility for the child's welfare, including, among others, decisions regarding money, contracts, and career).
Important areas that need more coverage include an evaluation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual from an Islamic perspective and the concept of "possession" in mental insanity, with the author's recommendations to Muslim psychiatrists on diagnosis and treatment.