Islam and new kinship : reproductive technology and the shariah in Lebanon / Morgan Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Morgan, 1972-

Series:

Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality.

Fertility, reproduction and sexuality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproduction (Islamic law).

Human reproduction (Islamic law)--Lebanon.

Reproductive rights--Lebanon.

Reproductive rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Other Title:

Reproductive technology and the shariah in Lebanon

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Providing a ground-breaking investigation into the changing ideas of kinship in the Middle East, the author documents Islamic responses to assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization through fieldwork in Lebanon and the extensive reading of Islamic legal texts. This ethnography is brought to bear on the latest theories of Middle Eastern kinship, as well as the "new kinship" studies in anthropology generally. Lebanon is home to both Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and the book thus provides a full account of both schools of legal opinion: in the case of the latter, a number of t

Contents:

'New kinship', new reproductive technologies and ideas of kinship in the Middle East

Islamic law and the religion of Lebanon : the example of adoption

Test-tube fiqh : Islamic legal reactions to the new reproductive technologies

More test-tube fiqh

Medical perspectives

Brave new worlds?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-238) and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-713-4

1-282-62782-1

9786612627828

1-84545-923-7

OCLC:

645100946