A CRITIQUE OF ISLAMIC ARGUMENTS ON HUMAN CLONING |
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Authors: | by Farrokh B. Sekaleshfar |
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Affiliation: | Medical doctor and a bioethics student at the University of Manchester School of Law. His mailing address is 6, Leycester Road, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 8QS, U.K.;e-mail . |
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Abstract: | Sunnism constitutes eighty percent of the Islamic world. The most academic and renowned religious seminary in the Sunni world is Al-Azhar University in Egypt, and it is from here that most verdicts on novel issues such as human cloning are decreed and disseminated throughout the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. The perspective of this seminary and of other significant Sunni jurisprudential councils and figures are alluded to throughout this essay. I lay out the method of legal derivation employed by the Sunni clergy and scholars and then illustrate how they have arrived at their prohibition on human cloning. I demonstrate weaknesses of methodology employed by the major Sunni Muftis within the domain of jurisprudence. |
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Keywords: | analogical deduction ethics human cloning Islam jurisprudence slippery slope arguments Sunnism |
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