Islamic Biomedical Ethics

Immediately distinctive of Sachedina’s approach to biomedical ethics is his conception of the Shari`ah as an integrated legal-ethical tradition: The Qur’an provides jurists with moral underpinnings of religious duty, and the grounding texts are to be taken as an ethical standard of conduct. Legal ru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norman K. Swazo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Islamic Thought 2009-10-01
Series:American Journal of Islam and Society
Online Access:https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1367