• Islam, Medicine, and Practitioners in Northern Nigeria

    Type Book
    Author Ismail Hussein Abdalla
    Series Studies in African health and medicine
    Series Number v. 6
    Place Lewiston
    Publisher E. Mellen Press
    Date 1997
    ISBN 0773486550
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number R653.N6 A23 1997
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    Tags:

    • Hausa (African people)
    • History
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine
    • Medicine, Arab
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Nigeria
    • Religion and Medicine
    • TRADITIONAL medicine

    Notes:

    • The author of this text argues that, although the Islamic and the pre-Islamic Hausa medical systems have much in common, their theoretical and conceptual frameworks are different. They operate from different understandings of the causes of disease and misfortune, and of the appropriate methods to be employed to restore health or alleviate suffering. The book also discusses another significant difference between the Islamic and non-Islamic Hausa medical systems: the mode of preserving and communicating medical knowledge. The early history of Islamic medicine is also described, and its theories, concepts and historical developments are explored.

  • Islam and mental health: A few speculations.

    Type Journal Article
    Author Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
    Abstract The author reflects on the studies conducted by various researchers on the relationship of Islam and mental health. It is being stressed by the author that there is a positive relation between religiosity and both mental and subjective well-being, and a negative association between religiosity and psychopathology. It adds that the similarities between monotheistic religions overshadow the differences regarding the association between religiosity and mental health.
    Publication Mental Health, Religion & Culture
    Volume 14
    Issue 2
    Pages 87-92
    Date February 2011
    DOI 10.1080/13674676.2010.544867
    ISSN 13674676
    Short Title Islam and mental health
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    Tags:

    • ADJUSTMENT (Psychology)
    • ISLAM
    • mental health
    • RESEARCH -- Methodology
  • Religiously integrated psychotherapy with Muslim clients: From research to practice.

    Type Journal Article
    Author Hisham Abu Raiya
    Author Kenneth I. Pargament
    Abstract In this paper, we attempt to translate empirical findings from a program of research that developed a Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness (PMIR) into practical clinical applications. The findings from this program of research are complemented and illuminated by findings from other empirical research and clinical work with Muslims. Our recommendations can be summarized as follows. First, clinicians should inquire directly about the place of religion in the lives of their Muslim clients. Second, mental health professionals should ask about what Islam means to their clients and educate themselves about basic Islamic beliefs and practices. Third, clinicians should help their Muslim clients draw on Islamic positive religious coping methods to deal with stressors. Fourth, we recommend that clinicians assess for religious struggles, normalize them, help clients find satisfying solutions to these struggles and, if appropriate, refer clients who struggle to a Muslim pastoral counselor or religious leader. Finally, in order to overcome stigma associated with mental health issues, mental health professionals should educate the Islamic public about psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). (from the journal abstract)
    Publication Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
    Volume 41
    Issue 2
    Pages 181-188
    Date April 2010
    DOI 10.1037/a0017988
    ISSN 0735-7028
    Short Title Religiously integrated psychotherapy with Muslim clients
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    Tags:

    • Coping Behavior
    • empirical research
    • mental health
    • MUSLIMS
    • positive religious coping
    • Psychological Assessment
    • psychological measures
    • Psychotherapy
    • religion
    • religious struggle
    • religiously integrated psychotherapy
    • stigma
  • Applying Qur’anic metaphors in counseling.

    Type Journal Article
    Author Shaima Ahammed
    Abstract In recent years there has been increased attention to the importance of appropriate and relevant counseling interventions with culturally and religiously diverse populations. In accordance with the fact that Muslims rely on Qur’anic verses when answering the larger questions of life, “metaphor therapy” comes across as a technique that counselors can employ with Muslim clients. Although several authors have suggested the use of therapeutic metaphors from various religious texts in a broad manner, relatively little has been published on the application of metaphors from the Qur’an in counseling. This article explains the value of Qur’anic metaphors as therapeutic tools in counseling. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)
    Publication International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling
    Volume 32
    Issue 4
    Pages 248-255
    Date December 2010
    DOI 10.1007/s10447-010-9104-2
    ISSN 0165-0653
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    Tags:

    • Counseling
    • Cross Cultural Counseling
    • Metaphor
    • Quran
    • Religious Literature
    • therapeutic tools
  • Health and healing in the Qur'an

    Type Book
    Author Musa Ahmed
    Place Sa'adu Zungur Kano
    Publisher Triumph Pub. Co. Ltd.
    Date 1998
    ISBN 9789781880506
    Library Catalog Open WorldCat
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  • Values, qualifications, ethics and legal standards in Arabic (Islamic) medicine

    Type Journal Article
    Author Kamel M Ajlouni
    Abstract Many historians claim that the Western world pioneered in the setting of ethical, legal and professional standards in the practice of medicine. Informed medical consent is proposed by some as an American invention. Others claim that patient rights and legal protection propose have stated in the early decades of the 20th century. This review is an attempt to uncover the facts regarding the way Arabs practiced medicine during the golden era of Islam. Eight hundred to fifteen hundred AD this includes the qualification of physicians according to a well designed curricula covering the science and humanity of medicine. The rules governing the quality control of health care delivery system and to some degree the principles of informed medical consent and to a lesser degree the principles of litigation are discussed. We hope that this paper will be a call to all humanity loving persons to end prejudices against other people and to stop stereotyping.
    Publication Saudi Medical Journal
    Volume 24
    Issue 8
    Pages 820-826
    Date Aug 2003
    Journal Abbr Saudi Med J
    ISSN 0379-5284
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12939664
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    Tags:

    • Arab World
    • Ethics, Medical
    • Female
    • History, 20th Century
    • History, Ancient
    • History, Medieval
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Liability, Legal
    • Male
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Moral Obligations
    • Quality of Health Care
    • Social Values

    Notes:

    • Many historians claim that the Western world pioneered in the setting of ethical, legal and professional standards in the practice of medicine. Informed medical consent is proposed by some as an American invention. Others claim that patient rights and legal protection propose have stated in the early decades of the 20th century. This review is an attempt to uncover the facts regarding the way Arabs practiced medicine during the golden era of Islam. Eight hundred to fifteen hundred AD this includes the qualification of physicians according to a well designed curricula covering the science and humanity of medicine. The rules governing the quality control of health care delivery system and to some degree the principles of informed medical consent and to a lesser degree the principles of litigation are discussed. We hope that this paper will be a call to all humanity loving persons to end prejudices against other people and to stop stereotyping.

  • Cultural differences: practising medicine in an Islamic country

    Type Journal Article
    Author Mohammad Al-Kassimi
    Publication Clinical Medicine (London, England)
    Volume 3
    Issue 1
    Pages 52-53
    Date 2003 Jan-Feb
    Journal Abbr Clin Med
    ISSN 1470-2118
    Short Title Cultural differences
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12617415
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    Tags:

    • Abortion, Induced
    • Blood Transfusion
    • Female
    • Fertilization in Vitro
    • Hospitals, University
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Male
    • Organ Transplantation
    • Physician-Patient Relations
    • Pregnancy
    • Religion and Medicine
    • SAUDI Arabia
    • Sterilization, Reproductive

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      Islam and Muslims have been in the headlines recently for one reason or another. But the practice of medicine in an Islamic conservative country such as Saudi Arabia has not been adequately reported. Many questions about cultural differences in the practice of medicine have been directed at me by non-Muslim colleagues. Below, I have tried to answer some of them after practising at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years.

       

  • South African Muslim Faith Healers perceptions of mental illness: understanding, aetiology and treatment

    Type Journal Article
    Author Yaseen Ally
    Author Sumaya Laher
    Publication Journal of Religion and Health
    Volume 47
    Issue 1
    Pages 45-56
    Date Mar 2008
    Journal Abbr J Relig Health
    DOI 10.1007/s10943-007-9133-2
    ISSN 1573-6571
    Short Title South African Muslim Faith Healers perceptions of mental illness
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19105000
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    Tags:

    • Faith Healing
    • Humans
    • Interviews as Topic
    • ISLAM
    • Mental Disorders
    • Religion and Psychology
    • South Africa

    Notes:

    • The important role that religious beliefs may have on perceptions of mental illness cannot be ignored. Many religions including Islam advocate witchcraft and spirit possession--all of which are thought to influence the behaviour of a person so as to resemble that of a mentally ill individual. Thus this research explored Muslim Faith Healers perceptions of mental and spiritual illness in terms of their understanding of the distinctions between the two, the aetiologies and the treatments thereof. Six Muslim Healers in the Johannesburg community were interviewed and thematic content analysis was used to analyse the data. From the results it is clear that the faith healers were aware of the distinction between mental and spiritual illnesses. It was also apparent that Islam has a clear taxonomy that distinguishes illness and the causes thereof. Treatments are then advised accordingly. Thus this paper argues that the predominant Western view of the aetiology and understanding of mental illness needs to acknowledge the various culturally inclined taxonomies of mental illness so as to better understand and aid clients.

  • Practice versus theory: tenth-century case histories from the Islamic Middle East

    Type Journal Article
    Author C Alvarez-Millan
    Publication Social History of Medicine: The Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine / SSHM
    Volume 13
    Issue 2
    Pages 293-306
    Date Aug 2000
    Journal Abbr Soc Hist Med
    ISSN 0951-631X
    Short Title Practice versus theory
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/14535258
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    Tags:

    • Eye Diseases
    • History, Medieval
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine
    • Middle East
    • Philosophy, Medical
    • Practice Management, Medical

    Notes:

    • Medicine and disease in medieval Islam have thus far been approached through theoretic medical treatises, on the assumption that learned medical texts are a transparent account of reality. A question yet to be sufficiently explored is the extent to which the ideas and theoretical principles they contain were actually carried out in practice. This paper deals with the description of diseases occurring in a tenth-century Casebook (Kitab al-Tajarib) by Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya’ al-Razi (known to Europeans as Rhazes)-the largest and oldest collection of case histories, so far as is known, in medieval Islamic medical literature. Since the author was a prolific medical writer, this study also includes a review of his medical and therapeutic principles dealing with eye diseases, as described in his learned treatises, and a comparison with those therapies actually employed in his everyday practice, as exemplified by the Casebook. The comparative analysis shows that the medical knowledge and the therapeutic advice so meticulously described in theoretical works were not paralleled in the physician’s medical performance. On the contrary, it appears that learned treatises served other purposes than determining medical practice.

  • Islam and mental health

    Type Journal Article
    Author T A Baasher
    Publication Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal = La Revue De Santé De La Méditerranée Orientale = Al-Majallah Al-Ṣiḥḥīyah Li-Sharq Al-Mutawassiṭ
    Volume 7
    Issue 3
    Pages 372-376
    Date May 2001
    Journal Abbr East. Mediterr. Health J
    ISSN 1020-3397
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12690755
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    Tags:

    • Alcoholism
    • Attitude to Health
    • Cultural Characteristics
    • Health Behavior
    • Health promotion
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Mental Disorders
    • mental health
    • Religion and Medicine
    • Religion and Psychology

    Notes:

    • This paper discusses the importance of a spiritual element in health with particular reference to mental health and Islam. The Islamic spiritual quest is outlined and some directives described. Specific examples are given of their application to health.

  • The effects of Islam and traditional practices on women's health and reproduction

    Type Journal Article
    Author Zuhal Bahar
    Author Hale Okçay
    Author S Ozbiçakçi
    Author Ayse Beşer
    Author Besti Ustün
    Author Meryem Oztürk
    Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Islam as a religion and culture on Turkish women's health. The study included 138 household members residing in the territory of three primary health care centers in Turkey: Güzelbahçe, Fahrettin Altay and Esentepe. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire prepared by a multidisciplinary team that included specialists from the departments of public health, psychiatric nursing and sociology. We found that the women's health behavior changed from traditional to rational as education levels increased, and that religious and traditional attitudes and behaviors were predominant in the countryside, especially practices related to pregnancy, delivery, the postpartum period, induced abortion and family planning. One of the most important prerequisites for the improvement of women's health is that nurses should know the religious practices and culture of the society for which they provide care, so that their efforts to protect and improve women's health will be effective.
    Publication Nursing Ethics
    Volume 12
    Issue 6
    Pages 557-570
    Date Nov 2005
    Journal Abbr Nurs Ethics
    ISSN 0969-7330
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16312085
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    Tags:

    • Abortion, Induced
    • Adult
    • Attitude to Health
    • Culture
    • Educational Status
    • Family Planning Services
    • Female
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Maternal Health Services
    • Questionnaires
    • Religion and Medicine
    • Turkey
    • Women's Health

    Notes:

    • The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Islam as a religion and culture on Turkish women’s health. The study included 138 household members residing in the territory of three primary health care centers in Turkey: Güzelbahçe, Fahrettin Altay and Esentepe. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire prepared by a multidisciplinary team that included specialists from the departments of public health, psychiatric nursing and sociology. We found that the women’s health behavior changed from traditional to rational as education levels increased, and that religious and traditional attitudes and behaviors were predominant in the countryside, especially practices related to pregnancy, delivery, the postpartum period, induced abortion and family planning. One of the most important prerequisites for the improvement of women’s health is that nurses should know the religious practices and culture of the society for which they provide care, so that their efforts to protect and improve women’s health will be effective.

  • Historical perspectives on health. Early Arabic medicine

    Type Journal Article
    Author Harry Brewer
    Publication The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
    Volume 124
    Issue 4
    Pages 184-187
    Date Jul 2004
    Journal Abbr J R Soc Promot Health
    ISSN 1466-4240
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/15301318
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    Tags:

    • Arab World
    • History of Nursing
    • History, Ancient
    • Hospitals
    • Humans
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Medicine, Traditional

    Notes:

    • The Arabian conquests during and after the 7th century led to a spread of Islam as well as the consequential influence of theology on health through the teachings of the Qur’an (Koran). Although traditional medicine was widely accepted and used, the character of early aggrandisement of Arabic medicine involved a facility for adapting and absorbing Graeco-Roman knowledge. The translation schools and libraries, famous in both the East and West, preserved and expanded the knowledge acquired. European academic learning owed much to the Arabs. Information came through Spain to Italy, France and, later on, England. The founding of hospitals, whilst not an Arab initiative, received a fillip from the religious prescriptions for care of the sick. The Military Orders developed specialist institutions for the sick, probably as a result of what they saw during their sojourn in the Middle East. The legacy of Arabic medical care is still with us today and deserves understanding and greater appreciation.

  • 'All is done by Allah'. Understandings of Down syndrome and prenatal testing in Pakistan

    Type Journal Article
    Author Louise D. Bryant
    Author Shenaz Ahmed
    Author Mushtaq Ahmed
    Author Hussain Jafri
    Author Yasmin Raashid
    Abstract Understanding the psychosocial impact of a congenital condition such as Down syndrome on affected individuals and their family requires an understanding of the cultural context in which they are situated. This study carried out in 2008 used Q-Methodology to characterize understandings of Down syndrome (DS) in Pakistan in a sample of health professionals, researchers and parents of children with the condition. Fifty statements originally developed for a UK study and translated into Urdu were Q-sorted by 60 participants. The use of factor analytic techniques identified three independent accounts and qualitative data collected during the Q-sorting exercise supported their interpretation. In two accounts, the 'will of God' was central to an understanding of the existence of people with DS although perceptions about the value and quality of life of the affected individual differed significantly between these accounts as did views about the impact on the family. The third account privileged a more 'scientific worldview' of DS as a genetic abnormality but also a belief that society can further contribute to disabling those affected. Attitudes towards prenatal testing and termination of pregnancy demonstrated that a belief in the will of Allah was not necessarily associated with a rejection of these technologies. Accounts reflect the religious, cultural and economic context of Pakistan and issues associated with raising a child with a learning disability in that country.
    Publication Social Science & Medicine (1982)
    Volume 72
    Issue 8
    Pages 1393-1399
    Date Apr 2011
    Journal Abbr Soc Sci Med
    DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.036
    ISSN 1873-5347
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21470731
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  • How Islam changed medicine: Al-Nafis, Servetus, and Colombo

    Type Journal Article
    Author Giles N Cattermole
    Publication BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)
    Volume 332
    Issue 7533
    Pages 120-121
    Date Jan 14, 2006
    Journal Abbr BMJ
    DOI 10.1136/bmj.332.7533.120-c
    ISSN 1468-5833
    Short Title How Islam changed medicine
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16410599
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    • Blood Circulation
    • History, 16th Century
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Pulmonary Medicine
  • The professional ethics of medieval pharmacists in the Islamic world

    Type Journal Article
    Author Leigh N B Chipman
    Publication Medicine and Law
    Volume 21
    Issue 2
    Pages 321-338
    Date 2002
    Journal Abbr Med Law
    ISSN 0723-1393
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12184610
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    • Ethics, Professional
    • History, Medieval
    • ISLAM
    • Pharmacy

    Notes:

    • Most work on Islamic medical ethics has been in relation to the physician, yet physicians are only one category of many health-related professionals. In view of its role as mediator between the layman and medication, pharmacy is of perhaps equal importance. In medieval Islam, there seems to have been a clear differentiation between the physician and the pharmacist. However, most of our sources reflect the physician’s point of view. A text which uniquely reflects that of the pharmacist is the thirteenth-century Minhaj al-dukkan by al-Kuhin al-’Attar of Cairo. A comparison between the ethical contents of this book, and of similar works aimed at physicians, can indicate what the differences and similarities were between the “good physician” and the “good pharmacist.” Interestingly, the language used to define the “go od” professional is religiously neutral--there is nothing to evince a particular identity, beyond a general monotheism, on the part of the writers.

  • Claiming the Public Soul: Representations of Qur'anic Healing and Psychiatry in the Egyptian Print Media

    Type Journal Article
    Author Elizabeth M Coker
    Abstract Egyptian society is engaged in a culture-wide debate over definitions of abnormality, local constructions of which are rooted in ideas about the body and the soul in relation to society as a whole. This is reflected in the continuing recourse to religious healers or texts, as well as in heated debates over the moral, social, religious and legal status of religious healers, in particular the relatively recent and more orthodox "Qur'anic healers." The present study used a primarily qualitative analysis of Egyptian newspaper articles to explore media portrayals of this debate with a focus on how these contradictory cultural themes are situated and contested. The results show that psychiatric hegemony is reflected in media language that gives primacy to certain discourses over others, but that religious healing and religion in general exert an equal, if not more powerful influence on the form of these media portrayals. Different strategies used to negotiate the tensions between Qur'anic healing and psychiatry by those on both sides of the argument come across in the ways these arguments are portrayed in the media.
    Publication Transcultural Psychiatry
    Volume 46
    Issue 4
    Pages 672-694
    Date Dec 2009
    Journal Abbr Transcult Psychiatry
    DOI 10.1177/1363461509351390
    ISSN 1461-7471
    Short Title Claiming the Public Soul
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20028683
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  • Psychiatric therapy and pharmacology in medieval Islam

    Type Journal Article
    Author Domenico De Maio
    Publication Medicina Nei Secoli
    Volume 14
    Issue 1
    Pages 39-68
    Date 2002
    Journal Abbr Med Secoli
    ISSN 0394-9001
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12747380
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    • History, Medieval
    • ISLAM
    • Pharmacology
    • Psychiatry
    • Religion and Medicine

    Notes:

    • Although psychiatric therapy and pharmacology in Medieval Islam are based on the ancient Greek tradition, the original Arabic contribution in the introduction and employment of new substances is undeniable. Another important aspect which received a decisive impetus by Arab physicians was the concept of psychical therapy.

  • The influence of Islam on AIDS prevention among Senegalese university students

    Type Journal Article
    Author Sarah S Gilbert
    Abstract Few studies have attempted to quantify Islam's contributions to HIV/AIDS prevention. Senegal has involved Muslim leaders in its prevention campaign for over a decade. Senegal also has the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines how Islam influences AIDS prevention by testing whether Senegalese participants' religiosity scores explain their risky decisions associated with sex, condom use, and drug use. Participants with higher religiosity scores were more likely to abstain from sex. However, participants high in religiosity were not more likely to report that they did not use condoms when sexually active.
    Publication AIDS Education and Prevention: Official Publication of the International Society for AIDS Education
    Volume 20
    Issue 5
    Pages 399-407
    Date Oct 2008
    Journal Abbr AIDS Educ Prev
    DOI 10.1521/aeap.2008.20.5.399
    ISSN 1943-2755
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18956981
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    • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
    • Adolescent
    • Adult
    • Female
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Male
    • Questionnaires
    • Religion and Sex
    • Senegal
    • Sexual behavior
    • Students
    • Young Adult

    Notes:

    • Few studies have attempted to quantify Islam’s contributions to HIV/AIDS prevention. Senegal has involved Muslim leaders in its prevention campaign for over a decade. Senegal also has the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines how Islam influences AIDS prevention by testing whether Senegalese participants’ religiosity scores explain their risky decisions associated with sex, condom use, and drug use. Participants with higher religiosity scores were more likely to abstain from sex. However, participants high in religiosity were not more likely to report that they did not use condoms when sexually active.

  • Abortion and Islam: policies and practice in the Middle East and North Africa

    Type Journal Article
    Author Leila Hessini
    Abstract This paper provides an overview of legal, religious, medical and social factors that serve to support or hinder women's access to safe abortion services in the 21 predominantly Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where one in ten pregnancies ends in abortion. Reform efforts, including progressive interpretations of Islam, have resulted in laws allowing for early abortion on request in two countries; six others permit abortion on health grounds and three more also allow abortion in cases of rape or fetal impairment. However, medical and social factors limit access to safe abortion services in all but Turkey and Tunisia. To address this situation, efforts are increasing in a few countries to introduce post-abortion care, document the magnitude of unsafe abortion and understand women's experience of unplanned pregnancy. Religious fatāwa have been issued allowing abortions in certain circumstances. An understanding of variations in Muslim beliefs and practices, and the interplay between politics, religion, history and reproductive rights is key to understanding abortion in different Muslim societies. More needs to be done to build on efforts to increase women's rights, engage community leaders, support progressive religious leaders and government officials and promote advocacy among health professionals.
    Publication Reproductive Health Matters
    Volume 15
    Issue 29
    Pages 75-84
    Date May 2007
    Journal Abbr Reprod Health Matters
    DOI 10.1016/S0968-8080(06)29279-6
    ISSN 0968-8080
    Short Title Abortion and Islam
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/17512379
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    Tags:

    • Abortion, Induced
    • Africa, Northern
    • Aftercare
    • Contraception
    • Cultural Characteristics
    • Family Planning Services
    • Female
    • Health Policy
    • Health Services Accessibility
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Middle East
    • Patient Advocacy
    • Pregnancy
    • Women's Health
    • Women's Rights

    Notes:

    • This paper provides an overview of legal, religious, medical and social factors that serve to support or hinder women’s access to safe abortion services in the 21 predominantly Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where one in ten pregnancies ends in abortion. Reform efforts, including progressive interpretations of Islam, have resulted in laws allowing for early abortion on request in two countries; six others permit abortion on health grounds and three more also allow abortion in cases of rape or fetal impairment. However, medical and social factors limit access to safe abortion services in all but Turkey and Tunisia. To address this situation, efforts are increasing in a few countries to introduce post-abortion care, document the magnitude of unsafe abortion and understand women’s experience of unplanned pregnancy. Religious fatawa have been issued allowing abortions in certain circumstances. An understanding of variations in Muslim beliefs and practices, and the interplay between politics, religion, history and reproductive rights is key to understanding abortion in different Muslim societies. More needs to be done to build on efforts to increase women’s rights, engage community leaders, support progressive religious leaders and government officials and promote advocacy among health professionals.

  • Reproductive issues from the Islamic perspective

    Type Journal Article
    Author Fatima Husain
    Abstract The Islamic faith is regarded by its followers, Muslims, as a complete way of life. A multitude of nationalities practise Islam and also various sects, and as a result there are various interpretations of Qur'anic guidance relating to almost every matter. Only a fully qualified jurist of the highest rank can issue edicts on problems that are not already clearly addressed in the Qur'an. This applies to contemporary issues and any Muslim is at liberty to debate and dialogue with the religious leader to obtain a ruling on a specific question. Marriage is described as half the faith in Islam and to have children is seen as a great blessing. There is no religious objection to an infertile married couple pursuing any form of infertility treatment including in vitro fertilization, surgical sperm retrieval and micro-assisted conception methods. However, there must be strict control to ensure that the gametes belong to the husband and wife. This relationship is described as 'halal' (permitted), whereas any union of gametes outside a marital bond, whether by adultery or in the laboratory, is 'haraam' (forbidden). Therefore, donor sperm pregnancies are strictly forbidden in all schools of Islamic law. The advent of ovum donation and surrogacy has led some Islamic scholars to allow this procedure between co-wives thereby avoiding the 'haraam' relationship between sperm and egg, but there is still debate on the definition of the mother. Similarly, treating any other situation outside a marriage relationship, for example fertilization of an ovum from cryopreserved sperm after divorce of the couple or death of the husband would be 'haraam' and strictly forbidden. The Qur'anic guidance is quite clear that the couple can pursue all permitted treatments but may need to accept that they may not achieve a pregnancy. Adoption is encouraged in Islam with the specific rule that the child must be able to identify its biological father by keeping his name. It must be emphasized that Muslims will vary on their degree of adherence to the faith and the practitioner should present all the options to the couple without assuming which treatments they will or will not accept.
    Publication Human Fertility (Cambridge, England)
    Volume 3
    Issue 2
    Pages 124-128
    Date 2000
    Journal Abbr Hum Fertil (Camb)
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11844368
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    Notes:

    • The Islamic faith is regarded by its followers, Muslims, as a complete way of life. A multitude of nationalities practice Islam and also various sects, and as a result there are various interpretations of Qur’anic guidance relating to almost every matter. Only a fully qualified jurist of the highest rank can issue edicts on problems that are not already clearly addressed in the Qur’an. This applies to contemporary issues and any Muslim is at liberty to debate and dialogue with the religious leader to obtain a ruling on a specific question. Marriage is described as half the faith in Islam and to have children is seen as a great blessing. There is no religious objection to an infertile married couple pursuing any form of infertility treatment including in vitro fertilization, surgical sperm retrieval and micro-assisted conception methods. However, there must be strict control to ensure that the gametes belong to the husband and wife. This relationship is described as ‘halal’ (permitted), whereas any union of gametes outside a marital bond, whether by adultery or in the laboratory, is ‘haraam’ (forbidden). Therefore, donor sperm pregnancies are strictly forbidden in all schools of Islamic law. The advent of ovum donation and surrogacy has led some Islamic scholars to allow this procedure between co-wives thereby avoiding the ‘haraam’ relationship between sperm and egg, but there is still debate on the definition of the mother. Similarly, treating any other situation outside a marriage relationship, for example fertilization of an ovum from cryopreserved sperm after divorce of the couple or death of the husband would be ‘haraam’ and strictly forbidden. The Qur’anic guidance is quite clear that the couple can pursue all permitted treatments but may need to accept that they may not achieve a pregnancy. Adoption is encouraged in Islam with the specific rule that the child must be able to identify its biological father by keeping his name. It must be emphasized that Muslims will vary on their degree of adherence to the faith and the practitioner should present all the options to the couple without assuming which treatments they will or will not accept.

  • Medicine of the Prophet

    Type Book
    Author Muhammad ibn Ab¯i Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawz¯iyah
    Place Cambridge
    Publisher Islamic Texts Society
    Date 1998
    ISBN 0946621195
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BP166.72
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    Tags:

    • History of Medicine, Medieval
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine
    • Medicine in the Koran
    • Medicine, Arab
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Medicine, Medieval
    • Religion and Medicine
    • Religious aspects

    Notes:

    • This book is a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as enshrined in the Qur’an and the hadith, or sayings of the Prophet. Written in the fourteenth century by the renowned theologian Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751AH/1350AD) as part of his work Zad al-Ma’ad, this book is a mine of information on the customs and sayings of the Prophet, as well as on herbal and medical practices current at the time of the author. In bringing together these two aspects, Ibn Qayyim has produced a concise summary of how the Prophet’s guidance and teaching can be followed, as well as how health, sickness and cures were viewed by Muslims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The original Arabic text offers an authoritative compendium of Islamic medicine and still enjoys much popularity in the Muslim world. This English translation is a more complete presentation than has previously been available and includes verification of all hadith references. Medicine of the Prophet will appeal not only to those interested in alternative systems of health and medicine, but also to people wishing to acquaint themselves with, or increase their knowledge of, hadith and the religion and culture of Islam.

  • Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise, "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt"

    Type Book
    Author Ali ibn Ridwan
    Author Adil Sulayman Jamal
    Translator Michael W Dols
    Place Berkeley
    Publisher University of California Press
    Date 1984
    ISBN 0520048369
    Short Title Medieval Islamic Medicine
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number R128.3 .A4513 1984
    Date Added Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM
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    Tags:

    • ‘Al¯i ibn Ridw¯an
    • Medicine, Arab
    • Ris¯alah f¯i daf‘ mad¯arr al-abd¯an bi-ard Misr
  • Allopathy Goes Native: Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Iran

    Type Book
    Author Agnes Gertrud Loeffler
    Series International library of Iranian studies
    Series Number 6
    Place London
    Publisher Tauris Academic Studies
    Date 2007
    ISBN 9781850439424
    Short Title Allopathy Goes Native
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number R632 .L64 2007
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    Tags:

    • Anthropological aspects
    • Iran
    • Medicine, Traditional
    • Public health
    • Social medicine
    • TRADITIONAL medicine

    Notes:

    • Allopathy is often described as “western” medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy. Allopathy Goes Native is an ethnographic investigation of how allopathic knowledge, theories and practice guidelines come to be understood and applied by native practitioners in a non-western context. Based on research among allopathic doctors in Iran, Loeffler describes how the system of allopathic medicine has adapted to indigenous explanations of health and disease and to the economic, social and religio-political realities framing contemporary Iranian life and culture. This approach simultaneously problematizes the view of allopathic medicine as a “western” entity exerting a hegemonic influence over non-western cultures and provides a rare glimpse of the complexities of life in modern Iran denied most western scholars. It is an essential supplement to the current anthropological literature on Iran.

  • Illness of the mind or illness of the spirit? Mental health-related conceptualization and practices of older Iranian immigrants

    Type Journal Article
    Author Shadi Sahami Martin
    Abstract The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore whether the way mental health is conceptualized by older Iranian immigrants can influence their mental health-related practices. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 Iranians who had immigrated to the United States after the age of 50. The findings from this study revealed that the older Iranian immigrants were reluctant to seek mental health care services in the United States.This resistance was largely attributed to the cultural differences in mental health conceptualization (language, definitions, and terminology) and lack of trust in the effectiveness ofpsychotropic medications. The findings of this study have implications for health and social service professionals who provide services to older immigrants, refugees, and minority populations whose mental health conceptualization may not be consistent with the biomedical model.
    Publication Health & Social Work
    Volume 34
    Issue 2
    Pages 117-126
    Date May 2009
    Journal Abbr Health Soc Work
    ISSN 0360-7283
    Short Title Illness of the mind or illness of the spirit?
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    Tags:

    • Aged
    • Aged, 80 and over
    • Cultural Characteristics
    • Female
    • Healthcare Disparities
    • Holistic Health
    • Humans
    • Interviews as Topic
    • Iran
    • Male
    • mental health
    • Middle Aged
    • Qualitative Research
    • spirituality
    • Transients and Migrants
  • Perception of nursing care: views of Saudi Arabian female nurses

    Type Journal Article
    Author Jette Mebrouk
    Abstract 'Values are principles and standards that have meaning and worth to an individual, family, group, or community' (Purnell & Paulanka 1998: p.3). Values are central to the care provided by nurses. The provision of nursing care within the context of value clarification, has been explored from various perspectives, however, as values vary within cultures, there is a limited range of studies reflecting on Saudi Arabian nurses' perspectives of nursing care. Through a Heideggerian phenomenological research design, six nurses were enrolled through purposive sampling. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews, which were audio tape-recorded, were chosen as the methods of data collection. A seven stage framework approach was applied to analyse and organise the research findings in three conceptual themes: values in context of Islam, the nurse-patient relationship, and identity's influence on being in the world of nursing. The findings of the research indicate that values in nursing and the perception of care are closely linked to the Islamic values of the informants. However, one of the most challenging aspects emerging from this study is related to these nurses' experiences related to the public's negative perception of nursing as a profession for Saudi Arabian women.
    Publication Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession
    Volume 28
    Issue 1-2
    Pages 149-161
    Date Apr 2008
    Journal Abbr Contemp Nurse
    ISSN 1037-6178
    Short Title Perception of nursing care
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18844568
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    Tags:

    • Data Collection
    • Female
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Male
    • Nurse-Patient Relations
    • Nurses
    • Nursing
    • SAUDI Arabia
    • Terminal Care

    Notes:

    • Values are principles and standards that have meaning and worth to an individual, family, group, or community’ (Purnell & Paulanka 1998: p.3). Values are central to the care provided by nurses. The provision of nursing care within the context of value clarification, has been explored from various perspectives, however, as values vary within cultures, there is a limited range of studies reflecting on Saudi Arabian nurses’ perspectives of nursing care. Through a Heideggerian phenomenological research design, six nurses were enrolled through purposive sampling. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews, which were audio tape-recorded, were chosen as the methods of data collection. A seven stage framework approach was applied to analyse and organise the research findings in three conceptual themes: values in context of Islam, the nurse-patient relationship, and identity’s influence on being in the world of nursing. The findings of the research indicate that values in nursing and the perception of care are closely linked to the Islamic values of the informants. However, one of the most challenging aspects emerging from this study is related to these nurses’ experiences related to the public’s negative perception of nursing as a profession for Saudi Arabian women.

  • Veiled communication: is uncovering necessary for psychiatric assessment?

    Type Journal Article
    Author Himanshu Mistry
    Author Dinesh Bhugra
    Author Kutaiba Chaleby
    Author Farooq Khan
    Author Justin Sauer
    Abstract Facial expressions are significant to decipher information during a dialogue and more so in a clinical consultation. Veils (Niqab) worn by Muslim women may pose a clinical dilemma for the psychiatric assessment especially if clinicians are not aware of their religious significance. To investigate whether clinical judgment is affected if full facial expressions are not accessible, we conducted an email survey of psychiatrists and psychologists across the world who frequently work in these situations. Of 25 colleagues contacted 16 responded and 11 of them agreed for their comments to be included in the study. Nine out of 11 believed clinical assessment may be compromised, although respondents were aware of cultural sensitivity around the issue. Two out of 11 however, felt fully able to assess the mental state of a veiled woman. Some professionals reported that they feel unable to assess or treat if the request to take the veil off is declined. This small survey demonstrates the diverse opinions on whether unveiling is necessary for psychiatric assessment. Further qualitative examination of this area is needed to develop wider consensus and guidance to mental health care professionals who may be dealing with these groups.
    Publication Transcultural Psychiatry
    Volume 46
    Issue 4
    Pages 642-650
    Date Dec 2009
    Journal Abbr Transcult Psychiatry
    DOI 10.1177/1363461509351366
    ISSN 1461-7471
    Short Title Veiled communication
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20028681
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  • A tribute to Zakariya Razi (865 - 925 AD), an Iranian pioneer scholar

    Type Journal Article
    Author Houchang D Modanlou
    Publication Archives of Iranian Medicine
    Volume 11
    Issue 6
    Pages 673-677
    Date Nov 2008
    Journal Abbr Arch Iran Med
    ISSN 1029-2977
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18976043
    Accessed Monday, November 02, 2009 1:20:25 PM
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    Tags:

    • History, Ancient
    • Humans
    • Iran
    • Male
    • Measles
    • Philosophy, Medical
    • Smallpox

    Notes:

    • The resurgence of Islamic Civilization in the Near East in the 7th century AD and its expansion to Persian Empire and Westward provided opportunities of access Persian, Hellenic, and Roman writings in philosophy and medicine. Based on their observations and experiences, Islamic physician-philosophers expanded upon those writings and at times challenged them. Among these physician-philosophers admiring and challenging Galen was Zakariya Razi described as the greatest physician of Islam and Medieval Ages. A search of electronic and written materials about early Islamic Medicine was carried out focusing on Persian physician-philosophers Zakariya Razi. Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, known in the West as Rhazes, was born in 865 AD in the ancient city of Rey, Near Tehran. A musician during his youth he became an alchemist. He discovered alcohol and sulfuric acid. He classified substances as plants, organic, and inorganic. At age 30, he undertook the study of medicine. He was a prolific writer with more than 184 texts in medicine attributed to him with 40 of them currently available. Among them are Kitab al-Mansoori, Kitab al-Hawi, and Kitab al -Judari wa al-Hasabah. The latter is the first scientific description for the recognition and differentiation of smallpox and measles. The Bulletin of the World Health Organization of May 1970 pays tribute to Razi by stating “His writings on smallpox and measles show originality and accuracy, and his essay on infectious diseases was the first scientific treatise on the subject”. Razi established qualifications and ethical standards for the practice of medicine. Zakariya Razi was not only one of the most important Persian physician-philosophers of his era, but for centuries his writings became fundamental teaching texts in European medical schools. Some important aspects of his contributions to medicine are reviewed.

  • Mental health and psychiatry in the Middle East: historical development

    Type Journal Article
    Author A Mohit
    Publication Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal = La Revue De Santé De La Méditerranée Orientale = Al-Majallah Al-Ṣiḥḥīyah Li-Sharq Al-Mutawassiṭ
    Volume 7
    Issue 3
    Pages 336-347
    Date May 2001
    Journal Abbr East. Mediterr. Health J
    ISSN 1020-3397
    Short Title Mental health and psychiatry in the Middle East
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12690751
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    Tags:

    • Arab World
    • Attitude to Health
    • Health Services Needs and Demand
    • History, 15th Century
    • History, 16th Century
    • History, 17th Century
    • History, 18th Century
    • History, 19th Century
    • History, 20th Century
    • History, 21st Century
    • History, Ancient
    • History, Medieval
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • mental health
    • Mental Health Services
    • Middle East
    • Philosophy
    • Psychiatry
    • Religion and Medicine
    • Religion and Psychology

    Notes:

    • A brief account is given of attitudes towards mental health and the development of psychiatry in the Middle East from an historical perspective. The Middle East is considered as a cultural entity and the influence of the beliefs and practices of ancient times on the collective mind of the people of the Region is discussed.

  • Egyptian contribution to the concept of mental health

    Type Journal Article
    Author A Okasha
    Publication Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal = La Revue De Santé De La Méditerranée Orientale = Al-Majallah Al-Ṣiḥḥīyah Li-Sharq Al-Mutawassiṭ
    Volume 7
    Issue 3
    Pages 377-380
    Date May 2001
    Journal Abbr East. Mediterr. Health J
    ISSN 1020-3397
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12690756
    Accessed Monday, November 02, 2009 1:28:16 PM
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    Tags:

    • Arab World
    • Cultural Characteristics
    • Egypt
    • History, 20th Century
    • History, 21st Century
    • History, Ancient
    • History, Medieval
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • mental health
    • Mental Health Services
    • Psychiatry

    Notes:

    • This paper provides an historical look at the Egyptian contribution to mental health from Pharaonic times through to the Islamic era and up to today. The current situation as regards mental health in Egypt is described.

  • The perceived role of Islam in immigrant Muslim medical practice within the USA: an exploratory qualitative study

    Type Journal Article
    Author A I Padela
    Author H Shanawani
    Author J Greenlaw
    Author H Hamid
    Author M Aktas
    Author N Chin
    Abstract BACKGROUND: Islam and Muslims are underrepresented in the medical literature and the influence of physician's cultural beliefs and religious values upon the clinical encounter has been understudied. OBJECTIVE: To elicit the perceived influence of Islam upon the practice patterns of immigrant Muslim physicians in the USA. DESIGN: Ten face-to-face, in-depth, semistructured interviews with Muslim physicians from various backgrounds and specialties trained outside the USA and practising within the the country. Data were analysed according to the conventions of qualitative research using a modified grounded-theory approach. RESULTS: There were a variety of views on the role of Islam in medical practice. Several themes emerged from our interviews: (1) a trend to view Islam as enhancing virtuous professional behaviour; (2) the perception of Islam as influencing the scope of medical practice through setting boundaries on career choices, defining acceptable medical procedures and shaping social interactions with physician peers; (3) a perceived need for Islamic religious experts within Islamic medical ethical deliberation. Limitations: This is a pilot study intended to yield themes and hypotheses for further investigation and is not meant to fully characterise Muslim physicians at large. CONCLUSIONS: Immigrant Muslim physicians practising within the USA perceive Islam to play a variable role within their clinical practice, from influencing interpersonal relations and character development to affecting specialty choice and procedures performed. Areas of ethical challenges identified include catering to populations with lifestyles at odds with Islamic teachings, end-of-life care and maintaining a faith identity within the culture of medicine. Further study of the interplay between Islam and Muslim medical practice and the manner and degree to which Islamic values and law inform ethical decision-making is needed.
    Publication Journal of Medical Ethics
    Volume 34
    Issue 5
    Pages 365-369
    Date May 2008
    Journal Abbr J Med Ethics
    DOI 10.1136/jme.2007.021345
    ISSN 1473-4257
    Short Title The perceived role of Islam in immigrant Muslim medical practice within the USA
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18448718
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    Tags:

    • Adult
    • Cultural Characteristics
    • Emigrants and Immigrants
    • Female
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Male
    • Middle Aged
    • Physicians
    • Pilot Projects
    • Professional Practice
    • Qualitative Research
    • Religion and Medicine
    • United States

    Notes:

    • Background: Islam and Muslims are underrepresented in the medical literature and the influence of physician’s cultural beliefs and religious values upon the clinical encounter has been understudied. Objective: To elicit the perceived influence of Islam upon the practice patterns of immigrant Muslim physicians in the USA. Design: Ten face-to-face, in-depth, semistructured interviews with Muslim physicians from various backgrounds and specialties trained outside the USA and practising within the the country. Data were analysed according to the conventions of qualitative research using a modified grounded-theory approach. Results: There were a variety of views on the role of Islam in medical practice. Several themes emerged from our interviews: (1) a trend to view Islam as enhancing virtuous professional behaviour; (2) the perception of Islam as influencing the scope of medical practice through setting boundaries on career choices, defining acceptable medical procedures and shaping social interactions with physician peers; (3) a perceived need for Islamic religious experts within Islamic medical ethical deliberation. Limitations: This is a pilot study intended to yield themes and hypotheses for further investigation and is not meant to fully characterise Muslim physicians at large. Conclusions: Immigrant Muslim physicians practising within the USA perceive Islam to play a variable role within their clinical practice, from influencing interpersonal relations and character development to affecting specialty choice and procedures performed. Areas of ethical challenges identified include catering to populations with lifestyles at odds with Islamic teachings, end-of-life care and maintaining a faith identity within the culture of medicine. Further study of the interplay between Islam and Muslim medical practice and the manner and degree to which Islamic values and law inform ethical decision-making is needed.

  • Female patients and practitioners in medieval Islam

    Type Journal Article
    Author Peter E Pormann
    Publication Lancet
    Volume 373
    Issue 9675
    Pages 1598-1599
    Date May 9, 2009
    Journal Abbr Lancet
    ISSN 1474-547X
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19437603
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    • Female
    • Gynecology
    • History, Medieval
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine in Literature
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Obstetrics
    • Physicians, Women
    • Women's Health
    • Women's Rights
  • Medieval Islamic Medicine

    Type Book
    Author Peter E Pormann
    Author Emilie Savage-Smith
    Place Washington, D.C
    Publisher Georgetown University Press
    Date 2007
    ISBN 9781589011601
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number R128.3 .P67 2007
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    Tags:

    • History
    • History, Medieval
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine
    • Medicine, Arab
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Medicine, Medieval
    • Religious aspects

    Notes:

    • The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and fortunes of countless human beings. It is the story of contact and cultural exchange across countries and creeds, affecting caliphs, kings, courtiers, courtesans, and the common crowd. This tradition formed the roots from which modern Western medicine arose. Contrary to the stereotypical picture, medieval Islamic medicine was not simply a conduit for Greek ideas, but a venue for innovation and change. The book is organized around five topics: the emergence of medieval Islamic medicine and its intense cross-pollination with other cultures; the theoretical medical framework; the function of physicians within the larger society; medical care as seen through preserved case histories; and the role of magic and devout religious invocations in scholarly as well as everyday medicine. A concluding chapter on the “afterlife” concerns the impact of this tradition on modern European medical practices, and its continued practice today. The book includes an index of persons and their books; a timeline of developments in East and West; and a chapter-by-chapter annotated bibliographic essay.

  • Islam and end-of-life organ donation. Asking the right questions

    Type Journal Article
    Author Mohamed Y Rady
    Author Joseph L Verheijde
    Abstract Organ transplantation has become an established treatment option for end-stage organ disease. Both living and end-of-life (so called deceased) organ donation narrow the gap between supply and demand for transplantable organs. Advances in human biology prove that death occurs as a gradual process over time and not as a single discrete event. Declaring death with either neurological criteria (heart-beating organ donation) or circulatory criteria (non-heart-beating organ donation) enables the procurement of transplantable organs before human death is complete, namely, from the incipiently dying donor. Thus, surgical procurement of organs from the incipiently dying donor is the proximate cause of death, raising new questions on end-of-life organ donation. It is imperative to first and foremost care for the patient as a dying person. International Muslim scholars should reevaluate previous Islamic rulings and provide guidance about current practice of end-of-life organ donation.
    Publication Saudi Medical Journal
    Volume 30
    Issue 7
    Pages 882-886
    Date Jul 2009
    Journal Abbr Saudi Med J
    ISSN 0379-5284
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19618000
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    Tags:

    • Death
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Religion and Medicine
    • Tissue and Organ Procurement

    Notes:

    • Organ transplantation has become an established treatment option for end-stage organ disease. Both living and end-of-life (so called deceased) organ donation narrow the gap between supply and demand for transplantable organs. Advances in human biology prove that death occurs as a gradual process over time and not as a single discrete event. Declaring death with either neurological criteria (heart-beating organ donation) or circulatory criteria (non-heart-beating organ donation) enables the procurement of transplantable organs before human death is complete, namely, from the incipiently dying donor. Thus, surgical procurement of organs from the incipiently dying donor is the proximate cause of death, raising new questions on end-of-life organ donation. It is imperative to first and foremost care for the patient as a dying person. International Muslim scholars should reevaluate previous Islamic rulings and provide guidance about current practice of end-of-life organ donation.

  • Health and Medicine in the Islamic Tradition: Change And Identity

    Type Book
    Author Fazlur Rahman
    Series Health/medicine and the faith traditions
    Place New York
    Publisher Crossroad
    Date 1987
    ISBN 0824507975
    Short Title Health and Medicine in the Islamic Tradition
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number BP166.72
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    Tags:

    • Health
    • Medicine
    • Religious aspects

    Notes:

    • This is a pioneering attempt to portray the relationship of Islam as a system of faith and as a tradition to human health and health care. The author explores Wellness and Illness in the Islamic World view, the Religious Valuation of Medicine, The Prophetic Medicine, Medical Care, Medical Ethics and Passages.

  • Science and Medicine in Islam: A Collection of Essays

    Type Book
    Author Franz Rosenthal
    Series Collected studies
    Series Number CS330
    Place Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain
    Publisher Variorum
    Date 1990
    ISBN 0860782824
    Short Title Science and Medicine in Islam
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number Q127.M628 R67 1990
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    Tags:

    • collected works
    • History
    • History of Medicine, Medieval
    • Islamic Empire
    • Medicine, Arab
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Science

    Notes:

    • The achievements of medieval Muslim scholars in the fields of philosophy, science and medicine are now well recognized, and Franz Rosenthal’s work has been instrumental in helping us to understand these. In this third collection of his articles, he demonstrates the information to be gained from tracing the Greek roots of the science and medicine of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages. Of particular concern here are the Hellenistic or late Hellenistic authors such as Galen, Hippocrates or Ptolemy. These articles show how Muslim writers have preserved much that has been lost in the Greek and played a vital part in ensuring the continuity of the classical tradition, and examine some of the specific ways in which they reacted to and developed it. They also deal with questions such as the place of the physician in society and the medical attitude towards homosexuality. As previously, the opportunity has been taken to add extra notes, and there is further included, published for the first time, a complete bibliography of the author’s works.

  • The terminally ill Muslim: death and dying from the Muslim perspective

    Type Journal Article
    Author N Sarhill
    Author S LeGrand
    Author R Islambouli
    Author M P Davis
    Author D Walsh
    Abstract Islam holds life as sacred and belonging to God and that all creatures will die one day. Suicide is forbidden. Muslims believe death is only a transition between two different lives. The terminally ill Muslim desires to perform five ritual requirements. Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are acceptable. A deceased Muslim must always be buried after being ritually washed and wrapped. There are different Muslim schools of thought, but they are united regarding their views on death and dying.
    Publication The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care
    Volume 18
    Issue 4
    Pages 251-255
    Date 2001 Jul-Aug
    Journal Abbr Am J Hosp Palliat Care
    ISSN 1049-9091
    Short Title The terminally ill Muslim
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11467099
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    Tags:

    • Attitude to Death
    • Attitude to Health
    • Cultural Diversity
    • Ethics, Medical
    • Funeral Rites
    • Grief
    • Humans
    • ISLAM
    • Patient Advocacy
    • Resuscitation Orders
    • Terminal Care
    • United States

    Notes:

    • Islam holds life as sacred and belonging to God and that all creatures will die one day. Suicide is forbidden. Muslims believe death is only a transition between two different lives. The terminally ill Muslim desires to perform five ritual requirements. Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are acceptable. A deceased Muslim must always be buried after being ritually washed and wrapped. There are different Muslim schools of thought, but they are united regarding their views on death and dying.

  • Islamic perspectives in human reproduction

    Type Journal Article
    Author G I Serour
    Abstract Assisted reproductive technology is widely practised around the world for the treatment of virtually all forms of infertility. The application of this technology in the Islamic world had been delayed for many years, based on the misconception that Islamic teachings do not approve assisted reproduction. The paper discusses derivation of Islamic rulings and its impact on the ethics of contemporary issues, including family formation and assisted reproduction. It clearly shows that Islam encourages family formation and assisted reproduction, when indicated, within the frame of marriage. It also discusses differences among Muslim sects, Sunni and Shi'aa. The paper also discusses Islamic rulings on the new emerging practices in assisted reproduction, including surrogacy, multifetal pregnancy reduction, cryopreservation, pregnancy in the post-menopausal period, sex selection and embryo implantation following the husband's death. The moral status of the embryo in Islam is discussed. Organ differentiation and ensoulment are believed to occur at 42 days after fertilization at the earliest. As individuation of the embryo does not occur before 14 days from fertilization, research on surplus embryos during this period is allowed. Similarly, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, gene therapy and non-reproductive cloning for the benefit of humanity are ethically acceptable in Islam. This information should help physicians in their decision before conscientious objection to offering various modalities of assisted reproduction to their infertile patients.
    Publication Reproductive Biomedicine Online
    Volume 17 Suppl 3
    Pages 34-38
    Date 2008
    Journal Abbr Reprod. Biomed. Online
    ISSN 1472-6491
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18983735
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    Tags:

    • Cloning, Organism
    • Cryopreservation
    • Female
    • Gene Therapy
    • Humans
    • Infertility
    • ISLAM
    • Male
    • Menopause
    • Posthumous Conception
    • Pregnancy
    • Pregnancy Reduction, Multifetal
    • Religion and Medicine
    • Reproduction
    • Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
    • Sex Preselection
    • Surrogate Mothers
    • Uterus

    Notes:

    • Assisted reproductive technology is widely practised around the world for the treatment of virtually all forms of infertility. The application of this technology in the Islamic world had been delayed for many years, based on the misconception that Islamic teachings do not approve assisted reproduction. The paper discusses derivation of Islamic rulings and its impact on the ethics of contemporary issues, including family formation and assisted reproduction. It clearly shows that Islam encourages family formation and assisted reproduction, when indicated, within the frame of marriage. It also discusses differences among Muslim sects, Sunni and Shi’aa. The paper also discusses Islamic rulings on the new emerging practices in assisted reproduction, including surrogacy, multifetal pregnancy reduction, cryopreservation, pregnancy in the post-menopausal period, sex selection and embryo implantation following the husband’s death. The moral status of the embryo in Islam is discussed. Organ differentiation and ensoulment are believed to occur at 42 days after fertilization at the earliest. As individuation of the embryo does not occur before 14 days from fertilization, research on surplus embryos during this period is allowed. Similarly, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, gene therapy and non-reproductive cloning for the benefit of humanity are ethically acceptable in Islam. This information should help physicians in their decision before conscientious objection to offering various modalities of assisted reproduction to their infertile patients.

  • Ibn Jazlah and his 11th century accounts (Taqwim al-abdan fi tadbir al-insan) of disease of the brain and spinal cord. Historical vignette

    Type Journal Article
    Author R Shane Tubbs
    Author Marios Loukas
    Author Mohammadali M Shoja
    Author Mohammad Ardalan
    Author W Jerry Oakes
    Publication Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine
    Volume 9
    Issue 3
    Pages 314-317
    Date Sep 2008
    Journal Abbr J Neurosurg Spine
    ISSN 1547-5654
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18928231
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    Tags:

    • Books
    • Brain Diseases
    • History, Medieval
    • Iraq
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Spinal Cord Diseases

    Notes:

    • The 11th century was culturally and medicinally one of the most exciting periods in the history of Islam. Medicine of this day was influenced by the Greeks, Indians, Persians, Coptics, and Syriacs. One of the most prolific writers of this period was Ibn Jazlah, who resided in Baghdad in the district of Karkh. Ibn Jazlah made many important observations regarding diseases of the brain and spinal cord. These contributions and a review of the life and times of this early Muslim physician are presented.

  • Islamic legacy of cardiology: Inspirations from the holy sources

    Type Journal Article
    Author Okan Turgut
    Author Kenan Yalta
    Author Izzet Tandogan
    Abstract The main source of all inspirational knowledge in Islam is indeed the Holy Qur'an. The verses of the Qur'an as well as the Hadeeth and Sunnah literature have also accumulated a number of teachings and practices in relation to cardiovascular medicine. Islam is actually a comprehensive system of life, which provides mankind with the best forms of balance between the mundane and the spiritual. Early era of Islamic medicine has generated some very famous and notable physicians. The greatest physician of this era was Avicenna who devoted a substantial section of his classic magnum opus, the Canon of Medicine, to cardiovascular disorders. The empirical guidelines and principles of the Qur'an and Sunnah might contribute to the understanding and evaluation of various disturbances of the heart and vessels. Islamic legacy will still continue to inspire the contemporary cardiology in investigating cardiovascular diseases.
    Publication International Journal of Cardiology
    Date Oct 24, 2009
    Journal Abbr Int. J. Cardiol
    DOI 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.09.470
    ISSN 1874-1754
    Short Title Islamic legacy of cardiology
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19857908
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    Notes:

    • The main source of all inspirational knowledge in Islam is indeed the Holy Qur’an. The verses of the Qur’an as well as the Hadeeth and Sunnah literature have also accumulated a number of teachings and practices in relation to cardiovascular medicine. Islam is actually a comprehensive system of life, which provides mankind with the best forms of balance between the mundane and the spiritual. Early era of Islamic medicine has generated some very famous and notable physicians. The greatest physician of this era was Avicenna who devoted a substantial section of his classic magnum opus, the Canon of Medicine, to cardiovascular disorders. The empirical guidelines and principles of the Qur’an and Sunnah might contribute to the understanding and evaluation of various disturbances of the heart and vessels. Islamic legacy will still continue to inspire the contemporary cardiology in investigating cardiovascular diseases.

  • Islamic Medicine

    Type Book
    Author Manfred Ullmann
    Series Islamic surveys
    Series Number 11
    Place Edinburgh
    Publisher Edinburgh University Press
    Date 1978
    ISBN 0852243251
    Library Catalog library.bu.edu Library Catalog
    Call Number D199.3
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    Tags:

    • Medicine, Arab

    Notes:

    • This highly readable survey describes the development of Islamic medicine and its influence on Western medical thought. It explains the main features of Islamic medicine: its system of human physiology; its ideas about the nature of disease; its rules for diet and the use of drugs; and its relationship with astrology and the occult.

  • Anatomy of the eye from the view of Ibn Al-Haitham (965-1039). The founder of modern optics

    Type Journal Article
    Author Nedim Unal
    Author Omur Elcioglu
    Publication Saudi Medical Journal
    Volume 30
    Issue 3
    Pages 323-328
    Date Mar 2009
    Journal Abbr Saudi Med J
    ISSN 0379-5284
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19271057
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    Extra PMID: 19271057
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    Tags:

    • Egypt
    • History, Medieval
    • Humans
    • Medicine, Arabic
    • Ophthalmology
    • Optics and Photonics
    • Reference Books, Medical

    Notes:

    • Ibn Al-Haitham (known as Alhazen in Latin [965 Basra, Iraq-1039, Cairo, Egypt]) was a scientist who played an important role in the middle age Islam world. He wrote many books and novels, but only 90 of them are known. His main book Kitab al-Manazir was translated into Western languages in the late twelfth century, and in the early thirteenth century. In this book, he formulated many hypotheses on optical science. The book, which is also known as Optic treasure (opticae thesaurus), affected many famous Western scientists. He became an authority until the seventeenth century in the Eastern and Western countries. Roger Bacon (1212-1294), who made radical changes in the Western optical traditions, reconfirmed Ibn Al-Haitham’s findings. Ibn al-Haitham began his book Kitab al-Manazir with the anatomy and physiology of the eye. He specifically described cornea, humor aqueous, lens, and corpus vitreum. He examined the effect of light on seeing. He caused changes in the prevailing ideas of his age, and suggested that light came from objects, not from the eye. He provided information regarding the optic nerve, retina, iris, and conjunctiva. He showed the system of the eye as a dioptric, and the relations between the parts of the eye. It is understood that he mastered all knowledge on the structure of the eye in his century. The best proof of this is the eye picture that he drew.

  • How Islam changed medicine: Ibn Sina (Avicenna) saw medicine and surgery as one

    Type Journal Article
    Author John Urquhart
    Publication BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)
    Volume 332
    Issue 7533
    Pages 120
    Date Jan 14, 2006
    Journal Abbr BMJ
    DOI 10.1136/bmj.332.7533.120-b
    ISSN 1468-5833
    Short Title How Islam changed medicine
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16410600
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    Tags:

    • General Surgery
    • History, 19th Century
    • History, Medieval
    • ISLAM
    • Medicine, Arabic
  • Muslim views on mental health and psychotherapy

    Type Journal Article
    Author Stephen Weatherhead
    Author Anna Daiches
    Publication Psychology and Psychotherapy
    Date Sep 4, 2009
    Journal Abbr Psychol Psychother
    DOI 10.1348/147608309X467807
    ISSN 1476-0835
    URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19735608
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    Notes:

    • Objectives: The aim of this research was to explore with a heterogeneous Muslim population their understanding of the concept of mental health and how any mental distress experienced by an individual can best be addressed. Design: A qualitative approach was taken. Participants were interviewed, and data analysed thematically. Methods: A sample of 14 Muslims was interviewed according to a semi-structured interview schedule. Participants were recruited via electronic mailing lists, and communications with local Muslim organizations. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Thematic analysis identified seven operationalizing themes that were given the labels ‘causes’, ‘problem management’, ‘relevance of services’, ‘barriers’, ‘service delivery’, ‘therapy content’, and ‘therapist characteristics’. Conclusions: The results highlight the interweaving of religious and secular perspectives on mental distress and responses to it. Potential barriers are discussed, as are the important characteristics of therapy, therapists, and service provision. Clinical implications are presented along with the limitations of this study and suggestions for future research.