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    Medicine and Shariah: a dialogue in Islamic bioethics (edited book)
    with Aasim I. Padela
    University of Notre Dame Press. 2021.
    Padela and his contributors address a hitherto unexplored dimension of Islamic bioethics: the dynamics and tensions between Muslim medical doctors and Islamic jurists. What happens, and what should happen, when ancient faith and modern medicine both make claims on care for the ill? What, at the end of the day, constitutes true 'Islamic bioethics?' Includes a foreword and a chapter by Ebrahim Moosa.
  • Revival and reform
    In Gerhard Bowering (ed.), Islamic political thought: an introduction, Princeton University Press. 2015.
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    2 The Human Person in Iqbal’s Thought
    In Chad Hillier & Basit Koshul (eds.), Muhammad Iqbal: Essays on the Reconstruction of Modern Muslim Thought, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 12-32. 2015.
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    Interrogating Healthy Conflict
    Journal of Religious Ethics 48 (2): 289-298. 2020.
    The need to turn an enemy into an adversary is an ethical obligation. I try to show that this obligation has multiple religious and philosophical resources. The ethical imperative also requires us to not overstate and magnify any problem at hand to the point that it becomes insurmountable and enmity becomes an end in itself. I do ask the question whether Springs thinks of Colin Kaepernick’s peaceful protest by taking the knee at football games as an instance of healthy conflict. Are the terms pe…Read more
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    Muslim ethics is cautiously engaging developments in neuroscience. In their encounters with developments in neuroscience such as brain death and functional magnetic resonance imaging procedures, Muslim ethicists might be on the cusp of spirited debates. Science and religion perform different kinds of work and ought not to be conflated. Cultural translation is central to negotiating the complex life worlds of religious communities, Muslims included. Cultural translation involves lived encounters …Read more
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    Erratum
    with Aasim I. Padela, A. Arozullah, and Kiarash Aramesh
    Bioethics 29 (1): 56-56. 2014.
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    Ghazālī and the poetics of imagination
    University of North Carolina Press. 2005.
    Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Maimonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for his work in philosophy, ethics, law, and mysticism. In an engaged re-reading of the ideas of this preeminent Muslim thinker, Ebrahim Moosa argues that Ghazali's work has lasting relevance today as a model for a critical encounter with the M…Read more
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    The spirit of islamic humanism
    In John de Gruchy (ed.), The Humanist Imperative in South Africa, African Sun Media. pp. 107. 2011.
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    Muslim Ethics?
    In William Schweiker (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 237--243. 2005.
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    Brain death in islamic ethico-legal deliberation: Challenges for applied islamic bioethics
    with Aasim I. Padela and Ahsan Arozullah
    Bioethics 27 (3): 132-139. 2011.
    Since the 1980s, Islamic scholars and medical experts have used the tools of Islamic law to formulate ethico-legal opinions on brain death. These assessments have varied in their determinations and remain controversial. Some juridical councils such as the Organization of Islamic Conferences' Islamic Fiqh Academy (OIC-IFA) equate brain death with cardiopulmonary death, while others such as the Islamic Organization of Medical Sciences (IOMS) analogize brain death to an intermediate state between l…Read more
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    The field of medicine provides an important window through which to examine the encounters between religion and science, and between modernity and tradition. While both religion and science consider health to be a ‘good’ that is to be preserved, and promoted, religious and science-based teachings may differ in their conception of what constitutes good health, and how that health is to be achieved. This paper analyzes the way the Islamic ethico-legal tradition assesses the permissibility of using…Read more