Qatar- CILE to host seminar on families and challenges

10/6/2015 4:12:45 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula)Doha: The Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE) will hold a seminar on ‘Family in the Age of Science: Ethical Challenges Between Islam and Medicine’ tomorrow from 7pm to 9pm at the Lecture Hall at the new QFIS building.

CILE is a member of Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies at Qatar Foundation for Education Science and Community Development (QF)

With developments in medical and biological technology science has played a key role in providing answers to questions on the typical family formation and standards.

Defining the nature of its relationships — e.g. paternity and maternity among others — after providing answers to such questions was exclusively for religion customs and laws of society.

The seminar has emerged from an interest in addressing key ethical questions and challenges faced by the family institution these days.

Panellists will discuss how to bring about the desired balance between what is “possible” from the scientific and medical point of view and what is “required” from the moral and religious point of view.

The public event comes under the theme of medical and biological ethics; one of the applied research fields adopted by the centre. It is organised by Hamad Bin Khalifa University to support QF’s efforts towards researching an Islamic vision of ethics theoretically and in practice and its impact on the fields of education science and community development.

Speakers include Dr Tariq Ramadan Executive Director CILE and Professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University the UK; Dr Mohammed Ghaly Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics QFIS; and Dr Ayman Shabana Associate Research Professor Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

The Peninsula

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