overnmental Jurisprudence in Viewpoint of Shahid Sadr: A Review of Features of Jurisprudence of Systems

Martyr Seyed Mohammd Baqer Sadr may be considered the architect of a new approach in jurisprudential studies, whose main focus is inferring social systems from religious sources. In this approach, jurisprudential issues and problems are not studied as separate islands – as it is done in the current jurisprudential studies – rather it is considered as a completed system, whose components are just like an integrated network. Inference of the system as a complex and totality, which requires a new chapter in jurisprudential studies, is different from inference of a decree for every single component of the system through decrees of general subjects.
The present article, in the first part, has discussed the viewpoint of Shahid Sadr about jurisprudence of systems and its principal aspects. In the second part, focusing on the features of jurisprudence of systems, the differences of jurisprudence of systems from the existing jurisprudence are explained from various aspects. Based on the jurisprudence of systems, another type of duties and obligations are conceived, which are somehow different from the decree in individual jurisprudence in certain dimensions. These two types of duties are distinguished from the prevailing jurisprudential decrees with regard to their subject, the duty-bound person, type of duty, reward and punishment and method of inference.