دانلود کتاب اسلام و زیست پزشکی

Although many deserve to be appreciated and acknowledged, not least of all those who contributed to our conversations throughout the journey, I wish to thank especially my project partner, Dr Aasim I. Padela, who has heroically been ever so patient with me in giving birth to this volume. It is arguably providential that the two partners – a theologian and a scientist, one originating from the world of naql, the other coming from the world of ʿaql – should meet and start this journey, and then complement each other, thus exemplifying what we do indeed believe, the true complementarity between both Islam and Biomedicine. We were indeed fortunate to have had the support from our patron, the Templeton Religion Trust, for our original joint-project entitled, ‘Conversations on Islam and the Human Sciences.’1 Special appreciation therefore is reserved for Michael Murray, at the John Templeton Foundation, who supported this project from conception through implementation and served as a critical interlocutor for the chapter authors, and W. Christopher Stewart who trusted our team to carry out the project under the auspices of the Templeton Religion Trust. I should also mention Professors Abdulaziz Sachedina and Omar Qureshi who also served as key interlocutors. Professor Sachedina doubled as a Keynote Speaker at the special dinner event billed as ‘Trivia with the ʿUlamāʾ’ (when there is nothing trivial about sitting with the ʿulamāʾ actually!), staged on the sidelines of the two-day Multidisciplinary Symposium and Workshop on Islam and Biomedicine at the University of Chicago in September 2018. That Symposium was indeed the return match from the weekly Seminar Series on ‘Islam and Biomedicine’ I had convened a year earlier at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in Michaelmas Term 2017. For this, I would like to thank the Director of the Centre, Dr Farhan Nizami, CBE, who supported and allowed the Centre to host the project from the get-go.