End-of-life care, dying and death in the Islamic moral tradition / edited by Mohammed Ghaly.

Includes index.

Introduction: End-of-Life Care in the Islamic Moral Tradition / Mohammed Ghaly -- Part I. Methodological Issues: 1. End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death Islamic Ethics, A Primer / Mohammed Ghaly -- 2. Muslim Disquiet over Brain-Death: Advancing Islamic Bioethics Discourses by Treating Death as a Social Construct that Aligns Purposes with Criteria and Ethical Behaviours / Aasim I. Padela -- Part II. End-of-Life Care in Islamic Studies: 3. Muqārabāt falsafīyah akhlāqīyah li-rihāb al-mawt fī al-ḥaḍārah al-Islāmīyah: dirāsat ārāʼ Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī, wa-Abī ʻAlī Maskawayh, wa-Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī / Ḥāmid Ārḍāʼī va-Asmāʼ Asadī -- 4. Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī wa-falsafat al-alam wa-al-muʻānāh / Shihāb al-DĪn Mahdawī wa-Amīr Zamānī -- 5. Plague, Proper Behaviour and Paradise in a Newly Discovered Text by Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī / Hans Daiber -- 6. Islamic Ars Moriendi and Ambiguous Deathbed Emotions: Narratives of Islamic Saints and Scholars on the End-of-Life / Pieter Coppens -- Part III. End-of-Life Care as a Bioethical Issue: 7. Palliative Care and Its Ethical Questions: Islamic Perspectives / Mohammed Ghaly -- 8. Suicide Prevention and Postvention: An Islamic Psychological Synthesis / Khalid Elzamzamy -- 9. Limits to Personal Autonomy in Islamic Bioethical Deliberations on End-of-Life Issues in Light of the Debate on Euthanasia / Ayman Shabana -- 10. An Islamic Bioethical Framework for Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment / Rafaqat Rashid -- 11. Artificial Nutrition and Hydration at the Terminal Stage of Dementia from an Islamic Perspective / Hadil Lababidi -- 12. Child Loss in Early Pregnancy: A Balancing Exercise between Islamic Legal Thinking and Life's Challenge / Beate Anam -- Index.

"Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be "engineered" by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by "prolonging/hastening" death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, good death, appropriate death, dying well, etc. This volume examines how multifaceted EoLC moral questions can be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition. Contributors Amir Abbas Alizamani, Beate Anam, Hamed Arezaei, Asma Asadi, Pieter Coppens, Hans Daiber, Khalid Elzamzamy, Mohammed Ghaly, Hadil Lababidi, Shahaboddin Mahdavi, Aasim Padela, Rafaqat Rashid and Ayman Shabana"-- Provided by publisher.