Mariam Al-Attar

American University of Sharjah
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    This book explores philosophical ethics in Arabo-Islamic thought.
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    This article critiques some Islamic approaches to food ethics and the debate over genetically modified food. Food ethics is a branch of bioethics, and is an emerging field in Islamic bioethics. The article critically analyzes the arguments of the authors who wrote in favor of genetically modified organisms from an Islamic perspective, and those who wrote against GMOs, also from an Islamic perspective. It reveals the theological and the epistemological foundations of the two main approaches. More…Read more
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    This chapter aims at developing a doctrine of moral pluralism based on Islamic intellectual tradition. It draws upon modern concepts to differentiate between religious and moral pluralism on the one side and moral pluralism and ethical relativism on the other side. It shows that two concepts form the foundation of moral pluralism, namely the concept of universality, that includes core moral principles, and the concept of plurality of moral values. The two concepts are identified in the Islamic i…Read more
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    THE ETHICS ANDMETAPHYSICS OF DIVINE COMMAND THEORY
    In Richard C. Taylor & Luis Xavier López-Farjeat (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 315-325. 2015.