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Choosing the Lesser Evil? English Sunni E-fatwas on Abortion

Data publikacji: 02.04.2024

Studia Religiologica, 2022, Tom 55, Numer 2, s. 119 - 135

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.22.008.17248

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Ewa Górska
Wydział Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie
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Marta Woźniak-Bobińska
Katedra Bliskiego Wschodu i Północnej Afryki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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Tytuły

Choosing the Lesser Evil? English Sunni E-fatwas on Abortion

Abstrakt

There has been an academic interest in fatwas regarding abortion since the 1980s (Anees 1989; Rispler-Chaim 1993, 2003; Faúndes, Barzelatto 2006). With the globalisation of ummah – the Islamic community – and the expansion of the internet, online fatwas have started to provide normative answers to inquiries from Muslims from all over the world. Van den Branden and Broeckaert researched non-voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide expressed in English e-fatwas (2009, 2011). Using their approach and framing e-fatwas in the context of Roy’s view on the virtual Islamic community (2000, we have selected and analysed eighty English Sunni e-fatwas on abortion. On the level of structure, these e-fatwas are very similar – often rooted in the Quran and Sunna but not classical jurisprudential discussions on the subject. On the level of content, they do not deviate from Islamic jurisprudence, which does not encourage abortion but permits it in particular circumstances during specific stages of fetal development – generally, before four months or 120 days of gestation. In the light of our study, English Sunni e-fatwas on abortion constitute an important part of Islamic bioethical teachings and thus deserve further research.

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Informacje: Studia Religiologica, 2022, Tom 55, Numer 2, s. 119 - 135

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

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Choosing the Lesser Evil? English Sunni E-fatwas on Abortion

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9107-5486

Ewa Górska
Wydział Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9107-5486 Orcid
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2695-047X

Marta Woźniak-Bobińska
Katedra Bliskiego Wschodu i Północnej Afryki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2695-047X Orcid
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Katedra Bliskiego Wschodu i Północnej Afryki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Publikacja: 02.04.2024

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