Dato Dr Afifi al-Akiti is the Kuwait Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and teaches in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Dato Afifi is trained as a theologian in both the Islamic and Western traditions. His areas of expertise are Islamic theology, law, and science. He has worked on several BBC documentaries, including the award-winning Science and Islam (2009). Since 2010, Dato Dr Afifi has been listed in The Muslim 500: The Worlds 500 Most Influential Muslims.
Dr Aasim I. Padela is a clinician, health researcher, and bioethicist at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He utilizes methodologies from health services research, religious studies, and comparative ethics to examine the encounter of Islam with contemporary biomedicine through the lives of Muslim patients and clinicians, and in the writings of Islamic scholars. His scholarship develops intellectual frameworks through which Islamic theology (both moral and scholastic) can engage with contemporary natural and social scientific data.
Taking On the Ghazalian Challenge of Integrating Science and Theology with Islam and Biomedicine.-Medical Epistemology in Arabic Discourse from Greek Sources to the Arabic Commentary Tradition.-The Piety of Health: The Making of Health in Islamic Religious Narratives.-The Concept of a Human Microcosm: Exploring Possibilities for a Synthesis between Traditional and Modern Biomedicine.-Islam in Engagement with Life, Health and Medicine.-When Does a Human Fetus Become Human?.-At the Meeting of the Two Seas: The Value of Integrating Philosophy of Science and Religion in Determining the Nature and Purpose of the Human Self.-Muslim Values and End-of-Life Healthcare Decision-making: Values, Norms and Ontologies in Conflict?.-Intersection between Science, Philosophy and the Sunni Theological and Legal discourse in Defining Medical Death.-Islam and Science: Deepening the Discourse.-Science through an Islamic Epistemological Framework.-Interface between Islamic Law and Science: Legal Construction of Science in Light of Islamic Bioethical Discourses on Genetic and Reproductive Technologies.-Integrating Science and Scripture to Produce Moral Knowledge: Assessing Human Interests and Necessities in Islamic Bioethics.