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date: 15 February 2025

Islamic Bioethics: Religion, Science, and Technologylocked

Islamic Bioethics: Religion, Science, and Technologylocked

  • Osman BakarOsman BakarInternational Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation

Summary

Unlike views prevailing in certain cultures that insist on the separation of science and technology from religion, Islamic tradition argues for their interrelatedness, unity, and harmony. Islamic bioethics is both an old and a new field of academic inquiry. It is old in the sense that the practical concern with what are now considered bioethical issues has been present in Islam since its early history. But it is also new in the sense that its domain of inquiry now covers a much wider range of modern ethical issues that do not originate from the Muslim world. Rather, they largely originate from the modern West. It is also new with respect to the kind of philosophical challenges it has to grapple with in response to the competing theories of ethics that seek to best explain the meaning and significance of contemporary bioethics, as well as its relations—especially with its neighboring academic disciplines.

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  • Islamic Studies

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