Muslim physicians and Islamic jurists analyze the moral dimensions of biomedicine using
different tools and processes. While the deliberations of these two classes of experts involve …

Background. Jordan laws on permitting abortion are considered moderate. Religion is one
of the key determinants of people's attitudes towards abortion and plays a crucial role in …

The ethical dilemmas raised by new advances in science and technology have challenged
all societies, religious as well as non-religious. In the last decades, secularisation of …

The present study examines the association between sexual morality, religion, and attitudes
toward the practice of abortion in Turkey. Drawing upon data from the 2008–2010 European …

This paper provides a perspective on where contemporary Muslim responses to biomedical-
ethical issues stand to date. There are several ways in which Muslim responses to …

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a new technology that uses cell-free fetal DNA in
maternal plasma to detect fetal aneuploidies, is currently entering clinical practice. NIPT …

The development of prenatal diagnosis technologies has created challenging ethical
situations and raised complex ethical questions. The hardest among these is the question of …

Medical advances have given rise to several ethical dilemmas at the beginning of life. To
date, however, hardly any attention has been paid to the attitudes, beliefs, and decision …

Since the ninth century, Islamic scholars have been traditionally affiliated with one of two
major denominations: Shi'ite (known as Ja'fari school) or Sunni (with its four schools of …

The past two decades have witnessed substantial growth in the academic literature on
Islamic bioethics. As more papers are published, and more conferences are held, there is a …