[Book Review]: "Aasim I. Padela, ed. Medicine and Sharia: A Dialogue in Islamic Bioethics"

Abstract

Given the versatility of medicine in our contemporary times and its continuous development to match the current scientific developments in physics and biology, advancement in medical ethics is important. Furthermore, the variance in different communities’ social, psychological, and theological beliefs calls for flexibility in ethical discourses to meet the same communities’ demands, expectations, dogmas, and beliefs. Consequently, there are ongoing efforts to forge bioethics that match societal dispensation dynamics. Among these are efforts to define Islamic bioethics that are relevant to the Muslim community. In this spirit, Medicine and Sharia: A Dialogue in Islamic Bioethics gains relevancy as an additional effort to the ongoing discursive work of framing bioethics that conform with Islamic Sharia. Its respected expert contributors include Aasim Padela––who also edited the volume––Vardit Rispler-Chaim, Fazlur Rahman Ebrahim, Hooman Keshavarzi, Bilal Rana, Yildran Günay, Abdullah Kholwadia, and Ebrahim Moosa, who are each professional intellectuals in Islamic jurisprudence, medicine, and ethics…