Tag: Science
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Allah’s Signs, Man’s Scalpel: Reframing Islamic Scientific Practice Beyond the Positivist Lens
The modern concept of an Islamic ‘Golden Age’ often oversimplifies a complex historical period, neglecting the integrated worldview where science and theology merged. Al-Zahrawi exemplifies this ideal, blending rigorous inquiry with spiritual reflection.
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Decolonising Knowledge: Applications in Psychiatry
The author emphasizes the need for Muslims, especially in medicine and psychiatry, to reclaim their intellectual heritage from the effects of colonization, which has led to a secularization of knowledge. He advocates for a holistic understanding of knowledge, merging secular and sacred perspectives, particularly in psychiatric practice, to address modern mental health crises effectively.
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Lab-Grown Breast Milk: The Intersection of Science, Ethics, and Islamic Jurisprudence
The great theologian Imam Al-Haramayn Al-Juwayni narrated a story from his father in what is a profound lesson in rizq: Upon receiving the news that his wife was expecting, Imam Al-Haramayn’s father took great care to ensure the money he provided his wife with was only directly earned from halal means. After Imam Al-Haramayn was…
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Religion and Pork: Issues With Alternative Meats
In a previous article, I outlined some issues ‘ulema have discussed with cultured (also known as lab-grown) meat. One is the impossibility of a blanket replacement of meat with lab-grown meat in light of religious obligations and recommendations of slaughter on certain occasions. The American Fiqh Academy’s fatwa (ruling) from Mufti Abdullah Nana, Abrar Mirza,…
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Sharia and the Texas Abortion Law
In early September, the nation’s strictest abortion law went into effect in Texas . . . Among the controversy that has ensued since, self-identifying American liberals responded by making comparisons to the Taliban, the sharīa, and Islam.
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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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Shaykh Amin Kholwadia on Maturidi Kalam and Bioethics
When a Muslim physician or scientist is going to work and engaging with his duties in life, he’s energetic, motivated, and he’s contributing to the beneficence of the world, then he will be much clearer in his intention and he will be much more sincere. We have a plethora of doctors in the US, but…
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Clonación humana: Nuevos horizontes de la biotecnología
El ritmo al que crece la tecnología, una especie de situación de carrera de la Reina Roja en la que los demás corremos para quedarnos en el sitio, nos obliga a pensar críticamente en el futuro de la biotecnología en lugar de observar pasivamente.
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Human Cloning: New Horizons in Biotechnology
The pace at which technology is growing, a sort of Red Queen’s race situation where the rest of us are running to simply stay in place, behooves us to critically think about the future of biotechnology instead of passively observing.
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A Brief on Islamic Bioethics and Intersex Persons
There was a paper published in August 2020 by Dr. Nasir Malim and Dr. Aasim Padela, the Director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine at University of Chicago, titled Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Gender Identity for Intersex Patients. The paper introduces how intersex individuals and their medical needs can be approached in contemporary medicine…