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The Question of Cultural Relativism in Ethical Values The Question of Cultural Relativism in Ethical Values
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The Nature of Islamic Ethical Discourse The Nature of Islamic Ethical Discourse
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The Principles and Rules in Islamic Juristic Ethics The Principles and Rules in Islamic Juristic Ethics
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Islamic Principles of Bioethics Islamic Principles of Bioethics
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The Rule of “No Harm, No Harassment” The Rule of “No Harm, No Harassment”
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Reproductive Genetics Reproductive Genetics
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4 Muslim Reproductive Ethics: Sources and Methodology
Get accessAbdulaziz Sachedina is professor and Endowed IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto. He has been conducting research and writing in the field of Islamic Law, Ethics, and Theology (Sunni and Shiite) for more than four decades. In the last twenty years he has concentrated on social and political ethics, including interfaith and intrafaith relations, Islamic biomedical ethics, and Islam and human rights. Dr. Sachedina’s publications include Islamic Messianism (State University of New York, 1980); Human Rights and the Conflicts of Culture, coauthored (University of South Carolina, 1988); The Just Ruler in Shiite Islam (Oxford University Press, 1988); The Prolegomena to the Qur’an (Oxford University Press, 1998); The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2002); Islamic Biomedical Ethics: Theory and Application (Oxford University Press, 2009); Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2009); and Islamic Ethics: Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct (Oxford University Press, 2022), in addition to numerous articles in academic journals.
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Published:19 September 2024
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Abstract
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) provides Islamic bioethics a rare opportunity to analyze the ethical ramifications of the impact of science and technology on the sexual and asexual procreation in the light of certain reproductive technologies that transgress the boundaries of normal sexual reproduction. This chapter explores previously under-examined issues of gender, embodiment, and human dignity in Islamic bioethics as they appear in ARTs—including those that involve third-party sperm donors. Building on earlier discussions of normatively conceived human procreation, the threat to the preservation of untainted homologous lineage appears greatest to the multiple parties involved in cases of heterologous ARTs. Whereas homologous ARTs are completely acceptable by all Muslim jurists, heterologous ARTs pose potential problems in Shari‘a, and need additional attention and safeguards. This study also has implications for the development of Islamic bioethics generally, by showing the crucial need to account for well-defined values that govern gender relations not directly and coherently addressed by the historical Islamic interpretive jurisprudence, nor adequately considered at the clinical level.
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