ISLAMIC STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL: ITS IMPORTANCE AND ROLE IN PROMOTING ISLAMIC ETHICS IN SOCIETY

Insanity and its treatment in Islamic society.

A description of the actual treatment of the insane in medieval Islamic society is a difficult task for three major reasons. First, the medical texts, especially the well-known treatise on insanity by Ishaq ibn 'Imran,2 give descriptions of various mental disturbances and their therapies; these accounts are, however, usually restricted to the Galenic tradition, are generally nonclinical, and do...

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...

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...

Country Report Islamic Medical Ethics: a Primer