Intersex in Islamic medicine, law, and activism

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Indira Falk Gesink
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Medicine

Urgensi Ilmu Kedokteran Islam dengan Hukum Islam (Studi Identifikasi Deoxrybo Nucleic Acid (DNA) terhadap Sepersusuan)

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Li’izza Diana Manzil
Keyword(s):  
Nucleic Acid ◽  
Breast Milk ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Dna Identification ◽  
Islamic Medicine ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Status ◽  
Brothers And Sisters

One sign of the rapidly growing world of medical science is its success in making one discovery about Deoxrybo Nucleid Acid (DNA). Islam does not prohibit the practice of DNA identification because it can be used in determining the legal status of relative relationships and related marital prohibitions among families because of the similarity of DNA genes between parents and their children. In Islam marriage prohibition can also occur between brothers and sisters. DNA identification can be done between siblings as a result of the presence of gene elements in breast milk. In addition, breast milk can also develop bone and grow meat if breastfeeding at least five times suction. But the results of DNA tests conducted between siblings cannot be more accurate if done to find relationships of parents and children. From this it clearly proves that Islamic medicine has an urgent value to Islamic law. This can be seen from one of its axiology in determining the status of brotherhood.

scholarly journals Cinnabar, Calomel and the Art of kushtasāzī: Mercurial Preparations in Unani Medicine

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Preckel
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Unani Medicine ◽  
Islamic Medicine ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract This paper examines the role of mercury in “Graeco-Islamic” medicine, which is referred to as Ṭibb-e yūnānī or unani medicine in South Asia. Having its origin in Ancient Greece, unani medicine spread to the Arabic countries and from the fifteenth century onwards to India. With its main roots in the Greek and Latin sources, the most influential works of ‘ilm al-adviya (pharmacology) were translated into Arabic, Persian and Urdu. Mercury (Arabic: zībaq; Persian: sīmāb; Urdu: sīmāb and pāra) played an important role in all Indian traditions of medicine, and had a prominent place in unani medicine. This paper highlights the historical use of mercury in Indian, Persian and Urdu medical literature, the discourses on its efficacy and some of the important mercurial preparations presented in a selection of unani works. Further, the use of mercury as a single and compound drug and its role in the treatment of different diseases will be analysed.

Hydroxycinnamic Acids: Natural Sources, Biosynthesis, Possible Biological Activities, and Roles in Islamic Medicine

2018 ◽  
pp. 269-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hesham R. El-Seedi ◽  
Eman A. Taher ◽  
Bassem Y. Sheikh ◽  
Shazia Anjum ◽  
Aamer Saeed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Activities ◽  
Hydroxycinnamic Acids ◽  
Natural Sources ◽  
Islamic Medicine

Tayādhūq (Theodocus/Théodoros) and his role in the formation of Islamic medicine

2021 ◽  
pp. 096777202110525
Author(s):  
Samet Şenel ◽  
Halil İbrahim Yılmaz
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Ibn Sina ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Islamic Medicine ◽  
Early Islamic

Tayādhūq, also known as Theodocus/Théodoros (d. early 8th century AD), was educated in the Gondēs̲h̲āpūr School and served the Sassanid kings. During this period, he contacted the Umayyad court and became the physician of Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf (d. 715 AD), the general governor of the Eastern regions of the caliphate. In addition to his knowledge on the Sassanid scientific tradition, Tayādhūq had a significant role in transferring this tradition to the Islamic world. His ideas were later followed by polymath physicians such as Rhazes (Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, d. 925 AD), Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 AD), and others who lived after him. His medical works were of great importance to the development of early Islamic medicine. Therefore, this study will attempt to illuminate this forgotten scholar's medical knowledge, the works he produced, and finally illustrate his influences on later Muslim physicians.

Vaccine hesitancy and implications on childhood immunisation in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Hazilah Abd Manaf ◽  
Mohd Azahadi Omar ◽  
Fatin Husna Suib
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Childhood Immunisation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Parental Decision ◽  
Islamic Medicine ◽  
Health Organization

PurposeThe World Health Organization identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the ten threats to global health in 2019. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the implications and factors affecting parental decision on childhood immunisation in Malaysia.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews literature on vaccine hesitancy and evaluation of factors affecting parental decision on childhood immunisation in Malaysia.FindingsVaccine hesitancy is a growing public health concern in Malaysia with factors such as influence of Internet and social media, personal choice and individual right, conspiracy theory, religious reasons and alternative medicine as among the influencing dynamics. An urban, educated demography operating within a postmodern medical paradigm compounds the diminishing value of vaccines.Originality/valueThis paper provides a comprehensive examination of vaccine hesitancy in Malaysia. Critical appraisal on personal choice over societal responsibility within an Asian/Muslim collectivist society has not been discussed in previous studies. The acceptance of homeopathy as an Islamic medicine alternative is peculiar to multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Malaysia.

scholarly journals Al-Razi and Islamic Medicine in the 9th Century

2006 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 206-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Tibi
Keyword(s):  
Additional Material ◽  
Islamic Medicine

Additional material for this article is available from The James Lind Library website [ www.jameslindlibrary.org ] where this paper was previously published.

scholarly journals The Emergence of Verification (taḥqīq) in Islamic Medicine

Oriens ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-113
Author(s):  
Kamran I. Karimullah
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Medical Discourse ◽  
Verification Method ◽  
Islamic Medicine ◽  
The Way

Abstract In this article, I discuss the legacy of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine in Islamic medical commentary after 1100. I argue that Faḫr al-Dīn’s legacy lies in the exegetical practices, the method of verification (taḥqīq) he introduced into Islamic medical scholarship through his commentary on the Canon. I first argue that the features that characterise the method of verification in works such as Faḫr al-Dīn’s commentary on Avicenna’s Pointers and Reminders are present in the commentary on the Canon, even if Faḫr al-Dīn’s introduction to the latter work does not allude to these practices in the way that the introductions to his later works do. Based on an analysis of Galen’s prescription about exegetical best-practice in his Hippocratic commentaries and Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī’s (d. ca. 925) introduction to Doubts on Galen, I argue next that Faḫr al-Dīn’s introduction of the verification method into the Islamic medical discourse was a watershed moment in the tradition. I use Ibn al-Quff’s (d. 1286) commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms to show how these methods were imitated by later medical commentators. This final section illustrates the enormous exegetical interest that the Canon of Medicine attracted, suggesting other promising trajectories for research into Faḫr al-Dīn’s medical legacy.

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