Medicine and Shariah: A Dialogue in Islamic Bioethics

Medicine and Shariah brings together experts to analyze the interaction of doctors and jurists in Islamic bioethics, providing a multidisciplinary model for ethical deliberation and examining the interaction between biomedical knowledge and Islamic law. It is essential reading for bioethicists, scholars of Islam, and those interested in the dialectics of tradition, modernity, science, and religion.

Format: Hardback
Length: 266 pages
Publication date: 29 June 2021
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

Medicine and Shariah brings together experts from various fields, including clinicians, Islamic studies experts, and Muslim theologians, to analyze the interaction of doctors and jurists who are forging the field of Islamic bioethics. Although much ink has been spilled in generating Islamic responses to bioethical questions and in analyzing fatwas, Islamic bioethics still remains an emerging field. How are Islamic bioethical norms to be generated? Are Islamic bioethical writings to be considered as part of the broader academic discourse in bioethics? What even is the scope of Islamic bioethics? Taking up these and related questions, the essays in Medicine and Shariah provide the groundwork for a more robust field. The volume begins by furnishing concepts and terms needed to map out the discourse. It concludes by offering a multidisciplinary model for ethical deliberation that accounts for the various disciplines needed to derive Islamic moral norms and to understand biomedical contexts. In between these bookends, contributors apply various analytic, empirical, and normative lenses to examine the interaction between biomedical knowledge (represented by physicians) and Islamic law (represented by jurists) in Islamic bioethical deliberation. By providing a multidisciplinary model for generating Islamic bioethics rulings, Medicine and Shariah provides the critical foundations for an Islamic bioethics that better attends to specific biomedical contexts and also accurately reflects the moral vision of Islam. The volume will be essential reading for bioethicists and scholars of Islam; for those interested in the dialectics of tradition, modernity, science, and religion; and more broadly for scholarly and professional communities that work at the intersection of these fields.
Medicine and Shariah is a groundbreaking volume that brings together experts from various fields to analyze the interaction of doctors and jurists in the field of Islamic bioethics. Despite the significant amount of literature and analysis on Islamic bioethical questions, the field remains relatively emerging. The volume aims to address key questions such as how Islamic bioethical norms are generated, whether Islamic bioethical writings should be considered part of the broader academic discourse in bioethics, and the scope of Islamic bioethics. The essays in Medicine and Shariah provide a multidisciplinary model for ethical deliberation that considers the various disciplines needed to derive Islamic moral norms and understand biomedical contexts. The volume begins by furnishing concepts and terms needed to map out the discourse and concludes by offering a multidisciplinary model for ethical deliberation that accounts for the various disciplines needed to derive Islamic moral norms and understand biomedical contexts. Contributors apply various analytic, empirical, and normative lenses to examine the interaction between biomedical knowledge (represented by physicians) and Islamic law (represented by jurists) in Islamic bioethical deliberation. The volume provides essential reading for bioethicists and scholars of Islam, as well as for those interested in the dialectics of tradition, modernity, science, and religion. It will also be valuable for scholarly and professional communities that work at the intersection of these fields.

Weight: 538g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780268108373