A Critique of Islamic Arguments on Human Cloning
Abstract. Sunnism constitutes eighty percent of the Islamic world. The most academic and renowned religious seminary in the Sunni world is Al-Azhar University in Egypt, and it is from here that most verdicts on novel issues such as human cloning are decreed and disseminated throughout the Islamic an...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
2010
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Zygon
Year: 2010, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-46 |
Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Islam B analogical deduction B Jurisprudence B slippery slope arguments B Sunnism B Human Cloning |
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Summary: | Abstract. Sunnism constitutes eighty percent of the Islamic world. The most academic and renowned religious seminary in the Sunni world is Al-Azhar University in Egypt, and it is from here that most verdicts on novel issues such as human cloning are decreed and disseminated throughout the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. The perspective of this seminary and of other significant Sunni jurisprudential councils and figures are alluded to throughout this essay. I lay out the method of legal derivation employed by the Sunni clergy and scholars and then illustrate how they have arrived at their prohibition on human cloning. I demonstrate weaknesses of methodology employed by the major Sunni Muftis within the domain of jurisprudence. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01057.x |