Differences between puberty in boys and girls in cold, tropical and temperate climates based on medical findings and field data

Subject Areas : فصلنامه مطالعات میان رشته ای فقه

sayed mohammad keykavosi ¹ (PhD, Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law and Member of the Young and Elite Researchers Club, Faculty of Humanities, Imam Khomeini Memorial Branch, Rey, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. [e-mail])

Received: 2021-09-29 Accepted : 2022-01-02 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: climate, Sexual Maturity, Quranic norms, field data,

Abstract :

According to the Quranic criteria in the sixth verse of Surah An-Nisa, puberty is a natural phenomenon with the actualization of sexual talent and reproductive powers, which in jurisprudential and legal principles, girls reach the age of 9 years and boys reach the age of 15 as the beginning. The duty is considered to be religious, civil and criminal obligations and responsibilities. However, the willingness to accept the responsibilities and limitations of puberty for girls and boys of different races, diverse climates, as well as differences in community culture and social health status and other factors, is not the same. Setting a fixed standard for all of them seems inappropriate. Therefore, the researcher with the aim of re-reading the jurisprudential and legal principles in the category of maturity criteria, while paying attention to the audience of hadiths in the critique of jurisprudential citations to maturity narrations, the rate of maturity variable in heterogeneous climates according to field research and Measured and examined medical components. According to the results of the present study, girls and boys living in cold climates and weather conditions have reached puberty with a considerable delay of their kind in the warm regions of Siri and at an older age have a correct understanding of social responsibilities and duties. They find themselves.