Abstract
The new development in donating human milk through human milk banks than by a traditional wet nurse has given rise to a new debate on the logic of Islamic milk kinship and contemporary challenges to Islamic milk kinship law that how and when kinship is actually established from the sharing of milk and is or not the traditional Islamic law dynamic and responsive to time and place?. In the present article, this concept is discussed in detail in the light of the teachings of Qūr’ᾱn and Sūnnᾱh by critically evaluating a fᾱtwᾱ of a well-known modern Egyptῑᾱn scholar Yūsūf Ᾱl-Qᾱrᾱdᾱwῑ in favor of human milk banking.
Keyword(s)
Human Milk Bank, Donor Human Milk, Islam, Breastfeeding Kinship