Aasim I. Padela is professor of emergency medicine, bioethics, and humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine and co-editor of Islam and Biomedicine.Ebrahim Moosa is the Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies at the University of Notre Dame.

"The book is well written, striking an academic and balanced tone, which cannot be said of much that passes for Islamic bioethics today. I have no doubt that Aasim Padela will be remembered as a pioneer of our field." —Journal of Islamic Ethics"Medicine and Shariah fills an important and widely felt gap among Muslims. There have been numerous recent works on Islamic bioethics, but none as far as I am aware that specifically focus on the actual interaction between physicians and jurists. Aasim Padela is one of the foremost medical experts who has brought to the fore practical as well as institutional challenges that face Muslim physicians and patients." —Ovamir Anjum, author of Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought"This volume is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Islamic bioethics." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• Preface An Introduction to Islamic Bioethics: Its Producers and Consumers1. The Relationship between Medicine and Religion: Insights from the Fatwa Literature2. The Islamic Juridical Principle of Dire Necessity (al-ḍarūra) and its Application to the Field of Biomedical Interventions3. A Jurisprudential (Uṣūlī) Framework for Cooperation between Muslim Jurists and Physicians and Its Application to the Determination of Death4. Considering Being and Knowing in an Age of Techno-Science5. Exploring the Role of Mental Status and Expert Testimony in the Islamic Judicial Process6. Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System: The Discursive Framing of "Islamic" Bioethical Discourse 7. Muslim Doctors and Islamic Bioethics: Insights from a National Survey of American Muslim Physicians 8. Jurists, Physicians, and Others in Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Vision for Islamic Bioethical Deliberation

Aasim I. Padela is professor of emergency medicine, bioethics, and humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine and co-editor of Islam and Biomedicine.Ebrahim Moosa is the Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies at the University of Notre Dame.

"The book is well written, striking an academic and balanced tone, which cannot be said of much that passes for Islamic bioethics today. I have no doubt that Aasim Padela will be remembered as a pioneer of our field." —Journal of Islamic Ethics"Medicine and Shariah fills an important and widely felt gap among Muslims. There have been numerous recent works on Islamic bioethics, but none as far as I am aware that specifically focus on the actual interaction between physicians and jurists. Aasim Padela is one of the foremost medical experts who has brought to the fore practical as well as institutional challenges that face Muslim physicians and patients." —Ovamir Anjum, author of Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought"This volume is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Islamic bioethics." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• Preface An Introduction to Islamic Bioethics: Its Producers and Consumers1. The Relationship between Medicine and Religion: Insights from the Fatwa Literature2. The Islamic Juridical Principle of Dire Necessity (al-ḍarūra) and its Application to the Field of Biomedical Interventions3. A Jurisprudential (Uṣūlī) Framework for Cooperation between Muslim Jurists and Physicians and Its Application to the Determination of Death4. Considering Being and Knowing in an Age of Techno-Science5. Exploring the Role of Mental Status and Expert Testimony in the Islamic Judicial Process6. Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System: The Discursive Framing of "Islamic" Bioethical Discourse 7. Muslim Doctors and Islamic Bioethics: Insights from a National Survey of American Muslim Physicians 8. Jurists, Physicians, and Others in Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Vision for Islamic Bioethical Deliberation

Aasim I. Padela is professor of emergency medicine, bioethics, and humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine and co-editor of Islam and Biomedicine.Ebrahim Moosa is the Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies at the University of Notre Dame.

"The book is well written, striking an academic and balanced tone, which cannot be said of much that passes for Islamic bioethics today. I have no doubt that Aasim Padela will be remembered as a pioneer of our field." —Journal of Islamic Ethics"Medicine and Shariah fills an important and widely felt gap among Muslims. There have been numerous recent works on Islamic bioethics, but none as far as I am aware that specifically focus on the actual interaction between physicians and jurists. Aasim Padela is one of the foremost medical experts who has brought to the fore practical as well as institutional challenges that face Muslim physicians and patients." —Ovamir Anjum, author of Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought"This volume is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Islamic bioethics." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• Preface An Introduction to Islamic Bioethics: Its Producers and Consumers1. The Relationship between Medicine and Religion: Insights from the Fatwa Literature2. The Islamic Juridical Principle of Dire Necessity (al-ḍarūra) and its Application to the Field of Biomedical Interventions3. A Jurisprudential (Uṣūlī) Framework for Cooperation between Muslim Jurists and Physicians and Its Application to the Determination of Death4. Considering Being and Knowing in an Age of Techno-Science5. Exploring the Role of Mental Status and Expert Testimony in the Islamic Judicial Process6. Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System: The Discursive Framing of "Islamic" Bioethical Discourse 7. Muslim Doctors and Islamic Bioethics: Insights from a National Survey of American Muslim Physicians 8. Jurists, Physicians, and Others in Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Vision for Islamic Bioethical Deliberation