Islamic ethics and the genome question

Islamic ethics and the genome question

Ghaly, Mohammed, ed.

Leiden: Brill Open, Koninklijke Brill NV, 2019

The Netherlands, Leiden

340 p.

English

Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the very first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in Qatar. The contributors to this volume, coming from different disciplines and specializations, approached the key ethical questions raised by the emerging field of genomics, viz. the Genome Question (GQ), from various angles and perspectives. Their shared thesis is that the breadth and depth of both the GQ and the Islamic tradition necessitate going beyond just producing quick answers in response to immediate questions. In order to accommodate the complexity and wide scope of the GQ, the volume included critical analyses of the ethical discourse on genomics, from outside the Islamic tradition. Within the Islamic tradition, the contributing authors explored how the QG can be better explored by involving insights from various disciplines including Quran exegesis, Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy and theology. Besides its interest for researchers and students specialized in ethics, bioethics and Islamic studies, this volume will be a source of important information for geneticists, genomicists and social scientists who are interested in the ethical discourse about genomics in the Muslim world.

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genomics [pri]; Islamic ethics [pri]

biotechnology; fiqh; genetic engineering; Muslim world; philosophy; religion, social sciences; theology

Islamic bioethics

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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Part 1. Collective Ijtihād and genomics. 1. Sharia scholars and modern biomedical advancements : what role for religious ethics in the genomic era? / Mohammed Ghaly -- 2. Islamic ethics and genomics : mapping the collective deliberations of Muslim religious scholars and biomedical scientists / Mohammed Ghaly -- 3. Transformation of the concept of the family in the wake of genomic sequencing : an Islamic perspective / Ayman Shabana -- Part 2. Genomics and rethinking human nature. 4. Conceptualizing the human being : insights from the genethics discourse and implications for Islamic bioethics / Aasin I. Padela -- 5. Islamic perspectives on the genome and the human person : why the soul matters / Arzoo Ahmed and Mehrunisha Suleman -- 6. The ethical limits of genetic intervention : genethics in philosophical and Fiqhi discourses / Mutaz al-Khatib -- Part 3. Widening the scope of ethical deliberations. 7. In the beginning was the genome : genomics and the bi-textuality of human existence / Hub Zwart -- 8. Creation, kinds and destiny : a Christian view of genome editing / Trevor Stammers -- 9. Living with the genome, by Angus Clark and Flo Ticchurst, within the Muslim context / Ayman Shaban -- Part 4. Contributions in Arabic.

QH438.7 .I85 2019

Brill Open E-Books Online
Studies in Islamic Ethics, Volume: 1

Includes bibliographic references and index

9789004392137 (e-book)
9789004392120 (print)