Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Clarke, Morgan, 1972- author.

Title Islam and new kinship : reproductive technology and the shariah in Lebanon / Morgan Clarke
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2009
©2009

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages)
Series Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; volume 16
Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 16.
Contents 'New kinship', new reproductive technologies and ideas of kinship in the Middle East -- Islamic law and the religion of Lebanon : the example of adoption -- Test-tube fiqh : Islamic legal reactions to the new reproductive technologies -- More test-tube fiqh -- Medical perspectives -- Brave new worlds?
Summary 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 religious authority in the region through a combination of in-depth field research in Lebanon and an exhaustive survey of the Islamic legal literature. Lebanon, home to both Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities, provides a valuable site through which to explore the overall dynamism and diversity of global Islamic debate. As this book shows, Muslim perspectives focus on the moral propriety of such controversial procedures as the use of donor sperm and eggs as well as surrogacy arrangements, which are allowed by some authorities using surprising and innovative legal arguments. These arguments challenge common stereotypes of the rigidity and conservatism of Islamic law and compel us to question conventional contrasts between 'liberal' and Islamic notions of moral freedom, as well as the epistemological assumptions of anthropology's own 'new kinship studies'. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Islam and the impact of reproductive technology on the global social imaginary.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-238) and index
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2022)
Subject Human reproduction (Islamic law)
Human reproduction (Islamic law) -- Lebanon
Reproductive rights -- Lebanon
Family planning -- Lebanon
Reproductive rights.
Islam.
Reproductive Behavior -- ethics
Reproductive Rights
Islam
Islam.
RELIGION -- Fundamentalism.
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Islam
Family planning
Human reproduction (Islamic law)
Reproductive rights
SUBJECT Lebanon
Subject Lebanon
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008052935
ISBN 9781845459239
1845459237