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With Rank Comes Responsibility: The Physician’s Social Role in Islam

Rank Is a Trial When, after years of study, nights spent over books, and years in the clinic, a person finally receives a degree and takes up a first post, that is not a moment of arrival. It is the…

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The Patient as Amāna, on the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Islam

The case we all recognise It is an ordinary Tuesday afternoon. The waiting room is full, the telephone keeps ringing,…

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The Ḥakīm – Akhlāq and Ādāb of the Physician in Islam

Modern medical ethics as an independent discipline emerged in Europe only around 1803, when Thomas Percival coined the term “Medical…

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End of Life

The reality for many Muslims in Germany toward the end of their lives very often looks like this: they must…

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