National University of Singapore : Arts & Social Sciences

Date:	30 July 2008
Location:	Malay Studies Seminar Room, AS7, Level 4 #04-13, Shaw Foundation Building, NUS Kent Ridge Campus

Time:

0300 pm to 0430pm

Organized by Religion Research Cluster, FASS, NUS.

Speaker:

Dr. Anke Iman Bouzenita, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur
About the Speaker: Anke Iman Bouzenita is Assistant Professor at the Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur. She obtained her Master and PhD degrees from the University of Bochum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Germany. Her publications and research interests cover the History of Islamic Law, Orientalism, Reverts to Islam and Islamic perspectives on bioethics. Address: Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh, Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, P.O. Box 10, 50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[e-mail: bouzenita@iiu.edu.my].

Abstract:

The vast possibilities and dangers of biotechnology in its various facets, dimensions and applications have been received with divergent reactions all over the world. Outcries of rejection have been countered by calls for the possibilities of its usage for the benefit of mankind. The reception in the Islamic world is no exception to this. However, it deserves specific attention with regard to the reception of scholars of Islamic law (fiqh), the educated public and policy makers. An analysis needs to take into account the paradigms of Islam and science as a reference point, the position of fiqh and the scholars of fiqh in contemporary societies and the particularity of the discourse in the Islamic world as being made up of developing countries.

Please email Rodney Sebastian at: fasrodn@nus.edu.sg if you are interested in attending .