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Events

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A selection of past Events

Prophetic Medicine: Medical Piety in the Medieval and Modern Islamicate Societies

Prof Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University)

Islam and Biomedicine: Seminar by Professor Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University), at 5.00 pm. All welcome.

Legal Construction of Science in Light of Islamic Bioethical Discourses on Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

Professor Ayman Shabana (Georgetown University)

Islam and Biomedicine: Seminar by Professor Ayman Shabana (Georgetown University), at 5.00 pm. All welcome.

Medical Epistemology in Arabic Discourse: Views from the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms

Professor Peter Pormann (University of Manchester)

SEMINAR SERIES on Islam and Biomedicine: Seminar by Professor Peter Pormann (University of Manchester), at 5.00 pm. All welcome.

Ambassador Idriss Jazairy

The Issue of Equal Citizenship Rights: A Case-Study of Myanmar's Rohingyas

Ambassador Idriss Jazairy (Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council)

Ambassador Idriss Jazairy, lectured at the Centre on ‘The challenge of equal citizenship rights: a case study of Myanmar’s Rohingyas’.

Biomedicine at the Intersection of Islamic Theology, Law, and Spirituality: The Hard Cases of Inception and End of Life

Kamaluddin Ahmed (University of Oxford)

SEMINAR SERIES on Islam and Biomedicine: Seminar by Professor Asad Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley), at 5.00 pm. All welcome.

'The Mad, the Sad, the Bad and the Glad’: Towards an Islamic Conception of Mental Illness and Wellbeing, Vice and Virtue

Dr Asim Yusuf (Penn Hospital)

SEMINAR SERIES on Islam and Biomedicine: Seminar by Dr Asim Yusuf (Consultant Psychiatrist), at 5.00 pm. All welcome.

Maqasid and Biomedicine

Dr Aasim Padela (University of Chicago)

ISLAM AND BIOMEDICINE Seminar Series: MichaelmasTerm 2017: Week 3: In the third seminar of the term, Dr Aasim Padela (University of Chicago) will speak on: Maqasid and Biomedicine.

Dreams and Their Interpretations: From Ibn Sireen to Freud and Beyond

Dr Ridwan Saleem (Royal College of Psychiatrists)

ISLAM AND BIOMEDICINE Seminar Series: MichaelmasTerm 2017: Week 2: In the second seminar of the term, Dr Ridwan Saleem (Royal College of Psychiatrists) will speak on: Dreams and Their Interpretations: From Ibn Sireen to Freud and Beyond.