Islam and Biomedicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Taking On the Ghazālian Challenge of Integrating Religion and Science in Islam and Biomedicine

   • Afifi al-Akiti, Aasim I. Padela

   Pages 1-14

3. From Greek Sources to Islamic Conceptions of Health and Biomedicine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Medical Epistemology in Arabic Discourse: From Greek Sources to the Arabic Commentary Tradition

      • Peter E. Pormann

      Pages 17-38

   3. The Piety of Health: The Making of Health in Islamic Religious Narratives

      • Ahmed Ragab

      Pages 39-62

   4. The Concept of a Human Microcosm: Exploring Possibilities for a Synthesis of Traditional and Modern Biomedicine

      • Osman Bakar

      Pages 63-77

   5. Islamic Ethics in Engagement with Life, Health, and Medicine

      • Adi Setia

      Pages 79-109

4. The Meaning of Life and Death

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. When Does a Human Foetus Become Human?

      • Hamza Yusuf

      Pages 113-134

   3. Where the Two Oceans Meet: The Theology of Islam and the Philosophy of Psychiatric Medicine in Exploring the Human Self

      • Asim Yusuf, Afifi al-Akiti

      Pages 135-182

   4. Muslim Values and End-of-Life Healthcare Decision-Making: Values, Norms and Ontologies in Conflict?

      • Mehrunisha Suleman

      Pages 183-222

   5. The Intersection between Science and Sunnī Theological and Legal Discourse in Defining Medical Death

      • Rafaqat Rashid

      Pages 223-241

5. Interfacing Biomedical Knowledge and Islamic Theology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Islam and Science: Reorienting the Discourse

      • Omar Qureshi, Afifi al-Akiti, Aasim I. Padela

      Pages 245-254

   3. Science in the Framework of Islamic Legal Epistemology: An Exploratory Account

      • Kamaluddin Ahmed

      Pages 255-270

   4. Interface between Islamic Law and Science: Ethico-Legal Construction of Science in Light of Islamic Bioethical Discourses on Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

      • Ayman Shabana

      Pages 271-294

   5. Integrating Science and Scripture to Produce Moral Knowledge: Assessing Maṣlaḥa and Ḍarūra in Islamic Bioethics and the Case of Organ Donation

      • Aasim I. Padela

      Pages 295-316

6. Back Matter

   Pages 317-326

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This book showcases multidisciplinary research at the intersection of the Islamic tradition and biomedicine. Within this broad area of scholarship, this book considers how Islamic theological constructs align with the science and practice of medicine, and in so doing offer resources for bridging the challenges of competing ontological visions, varied epistemic frameworks, and different theologies of life and living among the bodies of knowledge. By bringing together theologians, medical practitioners and intellectual historians, the book spurs deeper conversations at the intersection of these fields and provides fundamental resources for further dedicated research.

• integrating science and theology
• islam and biomedicine
• medical epistemology
• health and the islam
• human microcosm
• islam, health and medicine
• when is a human fetus become human?
• muslim values and end-of-life healthcare decision-making

• Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford, UK

  Afifi al-Akiti

• Department of Emergency Medicine & Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

  Aasim I. Padela

Dato’ Dr Afifi al-Akiti is the Kuwait Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and teaches in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Dato’ Afifi is trained as a theologian in both the Islamic and Western traditions. His areas of expertise are Islamic theology, law, and science. He has worked on several BBC documentaries, including the award-winning Science and Islam (2009). Since 2010, Dato’ Dr Afifi has been listed in The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims.

Dr Aasim I. Padela is a clinician, health researcher, and bioethicist at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He utilizes methodologies from health services research, religious studies, and comparative ethics to examine the encounter of Islam with contemporary biomedicine through the lives of Muslim patients and clinicians, and in the writings of Islamic scholars. His scholarship develops intellectual frameworks through which Islamic theology (both moral and scholastic) can engage with contemporary natural and social scientific data.