DNA TEST: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SHARIA

Abstract

The paper assays to recognize the social position of DNA Test, which is one of the techniques of modern science, and one of the contemporary and emerging publications in Islamic jurisprudence in terms of evidence of paternity suit proof and the position of scholars on both sides. Thus; the paper aims to be inclusive of the opinion of the contemporaries in term of prohibition and/or permissibility in this issue. This can achieved by known the legal aptitude of DNA Test and the constitutional and doctrinal documents, then assign it to its rules.