Islam and New Kinship

Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-432-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Morgan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on transliteration

List of abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: CONTEXTS

Prologue: Ahmed’s story

Chapter 1. ‘New kinship’, new reproductive technologies and ideas of kinship in the Middle East

Chapter 2. Islamic law and the religion of Lebanon; the example of adoption

PART II: CONVERSATIONS

Chapter 3. Test-tube fiqh: Islamic legal reactions to the new reproductive technologies

Chapter 4. More test-tube fiqh

Chapter 5. Medical perspectives

PART III: CONFRONTATIONS

Chapter 6. Brave new worlds?

Glossary of Arabic terms

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clarke, Morgan
Morgan Clarke is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology and a Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford.

Morgan Clarke is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology and a Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford.