Description: Further DetailsTitle: Islam and New KinshipCondition: NewSubtitle: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in LebanonISBN-10: 0857451405EAN: 9780857451408ISBN: 9780857451408Publisher: Berghahn BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/01/2011Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 358gAuthor: Morgan ClarkeGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & MathBook Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural PerspectivesRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Islam and New Kinship
Title: Islam and New Kinship
Subtitle: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
ISBN-10: 0857451405
EAN: 9780857451408
ISBN: 9780857451408
Release Date: 03/01/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 262 Pages
Publication Name: Islam and New Kinship : Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality
Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject: Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 12.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Morgan Clarke
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
