Acknowledgments
Glossary of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish Terms

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
Frank Griffel

Chapter 1. Constructing Kinship in Sunni Islamic Legal Texts
Thomas Eich

Chapter 2. Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Assisted Reproduction: Establishing Limits to Avoid Social Disorders
Sandra Houot

Chapter 3. Controversies in Islamic Evaluation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Farouk Mahmoud

Part II. From Sperm Donation to Stem Cells: The Iranian ART Revolution

Introduction
Narges Erami

Chapter 4. More than Fatwas: Ethical Decision Making in Iranian Fertility Clinics
Robert Tappan

Chapter 5. The "Down Side" of Gamete Donation: Challenging "Happy Family" Rhetoric in Iran
Soraya Tremayne

Chapter 6. Gestational Surrogacy in Iran: Uterine Kinship in Shia Thought and Practice
Shirin Garmaroudi

Chapter 7. Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Iran: The Significance of the Islamic Context
Mansooreh Saniei

Part III. Islamic Biopolitics and the "Modern" Nation-state: Comparative Case Studies of ART

Introduction
Sean Brotherton

Chapter 8. Third-Party Reproductive Assistance around the Mediterranean: Comparing Sunni Egypt, Catholic Italy, and Multisectarian Lebanon
Marcia C. Inhorn, Pasquale Patrizio and Gamal I. Serour

Chapter 9. Islamic Bioethics and Religious Politics in Lebanon: On Hizbullah and ARTs
Morgan Clarke

Chapter 10. Assisted Reproduction in Secular Turkey:Regulation, Rhetoric, and the Role of Religion
Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issues that are raised in the process of attempting to conceive life in the face of infertility? This path-breaking volume explores the influence of Islamic attitudes on Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and reveals the variations in both the Islamic jurisprudence and the cultural responses to ARTs.

Soraya Tremayne is the Founding Director of The Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.