Islam and New Kinship : : Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon / / Morgan Clarke.
Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Contexts
- Prologue: Ahmed’s story
- 1. ‘New kinship’, new reproductive technologies and ideas of kinship in the Middle East
- 2. Islamic law and the religion of Lebanon: The example of adoption
- Part II. Conversations
- 3. Test-tube fiqh: Islamic legal reactions to the new reproductive technologies
- 4. More test-tube fiqh
- 5. Medical perspectives
- Part III. Confrontations
- 6. Brave new worlds?
- Glossary of Arabic terms
- Bibliography
- Index