Puberty and Its Signs According to A Contemporary Islamic Jurisprudential-Legal View

Puberty is the subject of assignment, it is known either by the age of a young man or woman, or by signs, some of which were mentioned by jurists through experiences, environment, and so on. Then, in the present era, many issues have arisen that young men and women are going through, which may be a reason for accelerating puberty with a new signs or rate of growth, were unknown by ancient jurists due to the change in the environment, nutrition and moderation of the atmosphere, which causes activation of hormones that accelerate the puberty of the young man or woman. Hence, writing in determining puberty as an age or a sign according to the developments of the age is a matter required by modern studies so that the contemporary fatwa is based on the changes and developments of the age. Consequently, the idea of this research was raised. The research cossets an introduction revealing the importance of determining the age of puberty and how it considered the basis of the assignment where the reference to assignment (understanding the discourse). Whoever reaches the puberty was before that either without understanding during early childhood, or deficient in understanding when he later becomes a child of comprehension. Then I talked about puberty, in terms of jurisprudence, law, and medicine. The research ended up with the conclusion of the most important results of the study. The research was titled (the age of puberty and its signs according to a contemporary jurisprudential-legal view), in which it relied on the most important Islamic Fiqh, legal and medical references.