Brain Death and Its Entanglements: A Redefinition of Personhood for Islamic Ethics.

The Islamic philosophical, mystical, and theological sub-traditions have each made characteristic assumptions about the human person, including an incorporation of substance dualism in distinctive manners. Advances in the brain sciences of the last half century, which include a widespread acceptance...

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Published in:	Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 13 - 37
Main Author:	Haque, Omar Sultan
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2008
Subjects:	Brain death Islamic philosophy Manners & customs Brain physiology Death Soul Personality (Theory of knowledge) Dualism (Religion) Muslims
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost