Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response

Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah and Abdul Majid, Mahmood Zuhdi (2015) Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response. Journal of Religion & Science, 50 (4). pp. 809-829. ISSN 1467-9744

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Abstract

Technological advances in the field of medicine and health sciences not only manipulate the normal human body and sex but also provide for surgical and hormonal management of hermaphroditism (intersexuality). Consequently, sex assignment surgery has not only become a standard care for babies born with genital abnormalities in the West but even in some Muslim states. On the positive side, it goes a long way in saving children born with abnormal genitalia from numerous legal interdictions of the pre-sex corrective surgery. Nevertheless, the larger ethical and legal questions that medical management of genital abnormality raises to some extent have not been adequately appreciated by contemporary Muslim responses. This article, therefore, in principle argues against surgical management of intersexuality during early infancy from the Islamic legal perspective.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	3049/45747
Uncontrolled Keywords:	contemporary Islamic jurisprudence; intersex; juridicoethical dilemma; medical management
Subjects:	K Law > KBP Islamic Law > KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh > KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects K Law > KBP Islamic Law > KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh > KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh
Depositing User:	Prof. Sayed Sikandar Shah Haneef
Date Deposited:	17 Nov 2015 14:18
Last Modified:	28 Nov 2017 17:45
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/45747

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