Tag: healthcare
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Faith at the Frontiers of Cancer Care
Shaykh Amin Kholwadia at Crescent Oncology’s Jumuʿah at ASCO The American Society of Clinical Oncology—better known as ASCO—gathers tens of thousands of members of the oncology community for a conference in Chicago at the end of May and the start of June every year. The meeting has long since outgrown most convention centers, and in…
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Towards Implementing an Islamic Framework in Medicine
A transcript of Shaykh Amin Kholwadia’s lecture delivered in Amman, Jordan in 2017 regarding the impact of Maturidi kalam on bioethics was published this month.[1] Earlier this summer, I released an article on challenges and opportunities for Muslims to become live players in American healthcare. For the theoretical frameworks of scholars and researchers to manifest,…
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Islamic Investment in U.S. Healthcare
Medieval hospitals in the Islamic world were backed by endowments (Waqf), and the impoverished were supported through charity (Sadaqah and Zakat-ul-fitr).