Brain Death Islamic Perspective

Brain death in Islamic ethico-legal deliberation: challenges for applied Islamic bioethics.

Since the 1980s, Islamic scholars and medical experts have used the tools of Islamic law to formulate ethico-legal opinions on brain death. These assessments have varied in their determinations and remain controversial. Some juridical councils such as the Organization of Islamic Conferences' Islamic Fiqh Academy (OIC-IFA) equate brain death with cardiopulmonary death, while others such as the I...

Medical experts & Islamic scholars deliberating over brain death: gaps in the applied Islamic bioethics discourse.

The scope, methodology and tools of Islamic bioethics as a self-standing discipline remain open to debate. Physicians, sociologists, Islamic law experts, historians, religious leaders as well as policy and health researchers have all entered the global discussion attempting to conceptualize Islamic bioethics. Arguably, the implications of Islamic bioethical discourse is most significant for hea...

analyzing after death commitments from islamic jurisprudence’s perspective

some people think after human’s death, there is no commitment but the reality is different. he is committed to issues that are important such as: debt, blood money, loan and so on that for each there is a variety of topics. his posthumous commitments are due to be settled, and this is not impossible. in islamic jurisprudence, much attention has been paid to this issue, and it has been tackled f...

Brain death revisited: it is not 'complete death' according to Islamic sources.

Concepts, such as death, life and spirit cannot be known in their quintessential nature, but can be defined in accordance with their effects. In fact, those who think within the mode of pragmatism and Cartesian logic have ignored the metaphysical aspects of these terms. According to Islam, the entity that moves the body is named the soul. And the aliment of the soul is air. Cessation of breathi...

End of Life-Decisions: An Islamic Perspective