Interplay between Islam and the West

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An International Conference on Islamic Bioethics under the theme ‘Islamic Bioethics: The Interplay of Islam and the West’ was held at and hosted by Georgetown University in Qatar in June 2012 in collaboration with Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies and the University of Leiden. The conference brought together leading experts and researchers in the field of bioethics from the West and the Muslim world.

Date: June 24-25, 2012

Venue: Georgetown University in Qatar

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Presentations from the 2012 Conference – from Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press’s QScience (includes all papers below, as abstract and full access).

Paper Title	Author
An Outline of the Islamic Maqasidi/Purpose-Based Approach	Jasser Auda
Interface between Law and Ethics in Islamic Bioethics: the Boundaries of Nonmaleficence in the Islamic Law of Paternity	Ayman Shabana
An Islamic ‘recipe’ for the virus of ‘Western modernity’: Muslim religious scholars on AIDS	Mohammed Ghaly
Fiqh Councils & Health Policy Actors: Gaps in the Applied Islamic Bioethics Discourse around Vaccines with Porcine Components	Aasim Padela
Human Health in World Religions and the Need to Establish an International Religious Organization for Bioethics	Muhammad Khalifa
The Ensoulment Debates Then and Now: Aristotelian, Thomist and Islamic Interfaith and Cross-Disciplinary Discourses	Alan Weber
Regulating novel methods of reproduction: Womb transplantation and Islamic Bioethics	Amel Alghrani
Symbolic Pluriformity in ‘Religion and Science’: Islam, Environmentalism, and Medical Ethics	Willem Drees
Contemporary Western Bioethics Philosophy Compared With The Islamic Perspective	Muhammad Albar
Global Bioethics: Transnational Experiences	Henk Ten Have
Organ Transplantation in Saudi Arabia	Faisal Shaheen
Does it make sense to speak of an “Islamic Bioethics”? Some lessons from the organ transplant controversy in Egypt	Sherine Hamdy
Islamic bioethics’, religious authority and modernity: anthropological comments on Shi‘i responses to assisted conception in Lebanon	Morgan Clarke
Biobank Qatar: Bioethical principles of participation and resource governance in an Islamic context	Brian Clark
A Muslim Clinical Ethics Consultant in the Western Healthcare System: Experience and Challenges	Alireza Bagheri
Stem Cell Research from an Islamic Perspective	Raafat Osman
Biomedical Ethics: an Islamically Approved Human Enterprise?	Saadeldin Helaly

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