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A CRITIQUE OF ISLAMIC ARGUMENTS ON HUMAN CLONING
Author(s) -
Sekaleshfar Farrokh B.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01057.x
Subject(s) - islam , fiqh , jurisprudence , human cloning , perspective (graphical) , law , cloning (programming) , sociology , political science , sharia , theology , philosophy , art , computer science , visual arts , programming language
. 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 councils and figures are alluded to throughout this essay. I lay out the method of legal derivation employed by the Sunni clergy and scholars and then illustrate how they have arrived at their prohibition on human cloning. I demonstrate weaknesses of methodology employed by the major Sunni Muftis within the domain of jurisprudence.