Muslim Scholars, Islamic Studies, and the Gendered Academy

"the Muslim World or Ummah? Historicizing Modern Muslim Connectivity and Pan-islamic Imagination "

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...

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...

Antecedents of Islamic Political Radicalism Among Muslim Communities in Europe

R ecent years have witnessed a rapid proliferation of radical Islamist activity in western Europe, from MI5’s claim in 2006 of 30 incipient “terror plots” and 1,600 individuals under surveillance, to actual terrorist atrocities in European cities, the most infamous and deadly of which included the transport network bombings in Madrid in 2003 and in London in 2005. Concomitantly, both the media ...

official dialogue between muslim scholars in the soviet :union:

the leaders of the soviet :union: adopted atheist and anti-religious policies toward muslim nations during decades of ruling over central asia; the polices that posed a threat to the existence of muslims. following the outbreak of second world war, the government of the soviet :union: was forced to revise its hostile policies toward muslims and establish muslim religious department also known a...