Islam and assisted reproductive technologies : Sunni and Shia perspectives / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne.

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

xvi, 338 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Islam and assisted reproductive technologies / Soraya Tremayne and Marcia C. Inhorn -- Part I. Islamic legal thought and ARTs : marriage, morality, and clinical conundrums. Introduction / Thomas Eich -- Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) and assisted reproduction : establishing limits to avoid social disorders / Sandra Houot -- Controversies in Islamic evaluation of assisted reproduction technologies / Farouk Mahmoud -- Part II. From sperm donation to stem cells : the Iranian ART revolution. Introduction / Narges Erami -- More than fatwas : ethical decision making in Iranian fertility clinics / Robert Tappan -- The "down side" of gamete donation : challenging "happy family" rhetoric in Iran / Soraya Tremayne -- Gestational surrogacy in Iran : uterine kinship in Shia thought and practice / Shirin Garmaroudi Naef -- Human embryonic stem cell research in Iran : the significance of the Islamic context / Mansooreh Saniei -- Part III. Iranian biopolitics and the "modern" nation-state : comparative case studies of ART. Introduction / P. Sean Brotherton -- Third-party reproductive assistance around the Mediterranean : comparing Sunni Egypt, Catholic Italy, and multisectarian Lebanon / Marcia C. Inhorn, Pasquale Patrizio, Gamal I. Serour -- Islamic bioethics and religious politics in Lebanon : on Hizbullah and ARTs / Morgan Clarke -- Assisted reproduction in secular Turkey : regulation, rhetoric, and the role of religion / Zeynep B. Gürtin.