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THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE: ISLAMIC BIOETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
Author(s) -
Ghaly Mohammed
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2011.01245.x
Subject(s) - bioethics , islam , engineering ethics , dimension (graph theory) , sociology , human life , environmental ethics , political science , epistemology , law , social science , philosophy , engineering , theology , humanity , mathematics , pure mathematics
. In January 1985, about 80 Muslim religious scholars and biomedical scientists gathered in a symposium held in Kuwait to discuss the broad question “When does human life begin?” This article argues that this symposium is one of the milestones in the field of contemporary Islamic bioethics and independent legal reasoning ( Ijtihād ). The proceedings of the symposium, however, escaped the attention of academic researchers. This article is meant to fill in this research lacuna by analyzing the proceedings of this symposium, the relevant subsequent developments, and finally the interplay of Islam and the West as a significant dimension in these discussions.