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Islam and Biomedicine
This book showcases multidisciplinary research at the intersection of the Islamic tradition and biomedicine. Within this broad area of scholarship,...
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Taking On the Ghazālian Challenge of Integrating Religion and Science in Islam and Biomedicine
Advances in the sciences, particularly in the biomedical and life sciences, have created a knowledge gap that leaves various Muslim lay persons...
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The Concept of a Human Microcosm: Exploring Possibilities for a Synthesis of Traditional and Modern Biomedicine
The mechanistic and so-called “atomistic” approach to the treatment of the human body in contemporary biomedicine is seen to be in sharp contrast to...
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Muslim Values and End-of-Life Healthcare Decision-Making: Values, Norms and Ontologies in Conflict?
Through an empirical study of the experiences, practices, and moral deliberations of healthcare users and providers, end of life care offers an acute...
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Science in the Framework of Islamic Legal Epistemology: An Exploratory Account
This chapter argues that while the traditional approach of engaging Islamic philosophical traditions (falsafa) and the more modern approach of...
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Where the Two Oceans Meet: The Theology of Islam and the Philosophy of Psychiatric Medicine in Exploring the Human Self
This paper seeks to interrogate, via the notion of a mental illness, the bedrock assumptions upon which medicine and psychiatry are founded....
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Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa
Christianity, healing, and witchcraft beliefs and practices have been closely connected in African history, but their relations have also vexed...
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Restoring Religion to the Land: Gender, Race, and Ecology in the Literature of Paulina Chiziane
This chapter explores select novels of Paulina Chiziane, Mozambique’s most celebrated woman writer, and argues for their relevance to such pressing...
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Missionaries and African Christians
Taking the themes ‘Christian Societies,’ ‘Cultural Exchange’, ‘Asymmetries of Power’ and ‘Racial Inequalities’, this chapter examines relationships...
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Islamic Ethics in Engagement with Life, Health, and Medicine
Salient aspects of modern medicine pose serious intellectual and ethical challenges to the Islamic conception of life, health and general wellbeing....
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Integrating Science and Scripture to Produce Moral Knowledge: Assessing Maṣlaḥa and Ḍarūra in Islamic Bioethics and the Case of Organ Donation
The growing complexity of science and society bewilders the religious public as well as their scholars. Both seek to find their moral compass in...
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Interface between Islamic Law and Science: Ethico-Legal Construction of Science in Light of Islamic Bioethical Discourses on Genetic and Reproductive Technologies
This chapter addresses the relationship between Islamic law and science by investigating the role of science in normative Islamic pronouncements,...
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Introducing Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies
The Nordic countries have witnessed the growth of various Eastern practices, such as yoga, meditation, tantra, and acupuncture, among others. These...
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Muslims and Assisted Reproduction
This chapter reviews the key contributions of the qualitative social science literature about assisted reproduction in Muslim contexts with an...
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Cognitive Enhancement and Moral Bioenhancement: Becoming Smarter and More Moral
This chapter explores technological ways in which we attempt to biohack ourselves to becoming cognitively and morally better. The authors explain how...
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The Piety of Health: The Making of Health in Islamic Religious Narratives
The question of health and disease is ubiquitous in classical Islamic religious writings. Motivated in part by the prophet’s history of illness,...
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#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace
This article addresses Bhaktamar Mantra Healing (BMH), a healing practice based on a popular Jain stotra . After a preliminary discussion of Tantra...
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Abortion: Shi’ite Perspective
Since the ninth century, Islamic scholars have been traditionally affiliated with one of two major denominations: Shi’ite (known as Ja’fari school)...
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Anthropocratic Republic?
To ground these arguments about secularity, theocracy, and anthropocracy, this chapter presents an analysis of what it contends is an exemplary...
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Muslims and Assisted Reproduction
This chapter reviews the key contributions of the qualitative social science literature about assisted reproduction in Muslim contexts with an...