Humankind. The Best of Molds'—Islam Confronting Transhumanism
The paper intends to analyze the philosophic, imaginative, and theological aspects of Islam, which give grounds to the integration, acceptance, and enhancement of the transhuman, through the analysis of core concepts such as humanity' and body' in Islamic tradition. While transhumanism i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2019]
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Sophia
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 4, Pages: 677-688 |
| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Human
B Theology B Transhumanism B Islam B Body |
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| Summary: | The paper intends to analyze the philosophic, imaginative, and theological aspects of Islam, which give grounds to the integration, acceptance, and enhancement of the transhuman, through the analysis of core concepts such as humanity' and body' in Islamic tradition. While transhumanism is considered mainly from a lay or super-diverse perspective, Imams, fuquha (religious experts), Muslim scholars and simple believers—be they in Western or non-Western contexts—are evermore challenged to question the relationship between technological innovation effecting human nature, and Islamic tradition with its specific cultural framework. Considering that body-matter is what expresses the identity and the anthropopoiesis' of the Muslim believer, the intent of the paper is to investigate how—and through which spiritual meanings—can Islamic theology integrate the liminal bodies of the transhuman into the limited, defined, and purified human traditional models of Islamic belief. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Reference: | Errata "Correction to: ‘Humankind. The Best of Molds’—Islam Confronting Transhumanism (2022)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-019-00755-7 |