Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question, edited by Mohammed Ghaly

Islamic medical ethics in the 20th century.

While the practice of Western medicine is known today to doctors of all ethnic and religious groups, its standards are subject to the availability of resources. The medical ethics guiding each doctor is influenced by his/her religious or cultural background or affiliation, and that is where diversity exists. Much has been written about Jewish and Christian medical ethics. Islamic medical ethics...

Islamic medical ethics in the twentieth century

prominent topic, with further contributions in physics, astronomy, mechanics, cosmology, and psychology. The questions addressed largely consist of the puzzles of the curious layman (e.g. why is the sky sometimes red, how do flies stick to walls, etc.), presented in the style of the Greek problemata literature. The arguments offered in response are, as one would expect, essentially Aristotelian...

Muslim Perspectives on Cloning with Mohammed Ghaly, “Human Cloning through the Eyes of Muslim Scholars”; Farrokh B. Sekaleshfar, “A Critique of Islamic Arguments on Human Cloning” A CRITIQUE OF ISLAMIC ARGUMENTS ON HUMAN CLONING

Sunnism constitutes eighty percent of the Islamic world. The most academic and renowned religious seminary in the Sunni world is Al-Azhar University in Egypt, and it is from here that most verdicts on novel issues such as human cloning are decreed and disseminated throughout the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. The perspective of this seminary and of other significant Sunni jurisprudential counc...

The place of hadith and its efficiency in Islamic ethics

The efficacies of hadith in Islamic ethics is concerned with the authenticity and inauthenticity of ethical hadiths. The authenticity of ethical ahadith is deeply connected to the problem of tolerance in the proofs of sunan which has led to the two views of tolerance and intolerance. In this paper, it has been argued that ethics and jurisprudence are two distinct fields and one can not agree wi...

A question of ethics.