Journal of Studies in Islamic Law & Jurisprudence

Journal of Studies in Islamic Law & Jurisprudence

The Status of Inheritance of Gender Changed People in the Light of the General Rules of Inheritance

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Akram Tavakoli Kivi 1
Younes Vahed Yarijan 2
Sayyed Ali Jabbar Golbaghi Masouleh 3
Maryam Ebn Torab 2
1 PhD Student in Jurisprudence and Foundations of Islamic Law, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Foundations of Islamic Law, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Law, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran (Corresponding Author)
10.22075/feqh.2024.33981.3906
Abstract
The ability of medical knowledge in detection and confirmation of the gender of neutral persons and treatment of a group of gender disbelief possibility of gender change, has embedded the elaboration of jurisprudence and legal commandments of gender changed people has been included in the list of reclaimed matters and contemporary jurisprudence debates in the assumption of its occurrence. Gender is one of the effective variants in explaining a number of inheritance rules; Therefore, the following article with the aim of explaining the status of the inheritance verdict of gender changed people in the inheritance system of Imami jurisprudence with approaches to the general rules of inheritance in the written literature of Imami jurisprudence, surveys the foundations of opinions of contemporary jurists on the subject of the present research, evaluates the adaptation of general rules of inheritance with gender change status and with this method, by recognition of the general rule of inheritance ruling on inheritance status in assumption of occurrence of gender change, concluded that the gender change status doesn’t require the production of a new rule in Fiqhh-Alfaraez and is in the function of the general rules of inheritance; such as rule of being present about mentioned subjects in evidences of inheritance. Exercising this rule about gender change status is without appropriation and exception.
Keywords
inheritance
gender change
person
Inheritance of parents changed gender
inheritance of transgender people
inheritance of a gender changed
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Journal of Studies in Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
Volume 18, Issue 42
In progress
Winter 2026
Pages 279-312