Defining the Pedagogical Parameters of Islamic Bioethics

Secular bioethics has only recently begun to take religious perspectives seriously. Religion and Medicine courses in a number of universities across North America have incorporated Christian and Jewish perspectives for some time now, but Islamic, Buddhist and Hindu perspectives are only now gaining recognition. This late inclusion of Islamic perspectives can be partially attributed to the lack of materials in English on Islamic bioethics. Moreover, those materials that have been published actually deal with juridical-religious opinions rather than ethical deliberations based on principles and rules as developed in Islamic legal sciences. Here and there in these writings one reads references to the principle of “public interest” (maslaha), without any elucidation about its function, either as a principle in legal theory or as a rule of utility or beneficence that promotes the good in ethical decision-making. Instead, we have a plethora of juridical opinions (fatawa, plural of fatwa) deduced from the revealed texts on issues in biomedicine like abortion, end of life decisions, and more recently, genetic engineering or stem cell research, without any ethical discussion on the rightness or wrongness of the act in its medical scientific and clinical practical settings

The Role of Islam in the Public Square

The Role of Islam in the Public Square tackles the critical role of religion in the development of democratic institutions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Constitutional debates, Abdulaziz Sachedina asserts, have yet to address the role of religious convictions alongside their citizens's basic freedoms and rights. Sachedina argues that the way in which religious values are defined in Afghanistan and Iraq remains a major stumbling block, and that an inclusive sense of citizenship- one that transcends doctrinal and theological uniformity-is needed if democracy is to succeed in both countries

The Islamic roots of democratic pluralism

New Yorkxii, 175 p.; 23 cm

Beda tapi setara : pandangan islam tentang non Islam/ Sachedina

248 hal.; 23 cm

Beda tapi setara : pandangan islam tentang non Islam/ Sachedina

248 hal.; 22 cm

Beda tapi setara : pandangan islam tentang non Islam/ Sachedina

248 hal.; 23 cm

Beda tapi setara : pandangan islam tentang non Islam/ Sachedina

248 hal.; 23 cm