Interfaces and Discourses

Conference Overview

Hosted by the Initiative on Islam and Medicine, the Center of Middle Eastern Studies, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, this conference attends to the scholarly and discursive gaps impeding Islam and Science dialogues by convening a 3-day multidisciplinary conference focused at the intersection of Islamic tradition and contemporary biomedicine.

Shaykh Mohammad Amin Kholwadia
Executive Director and Founder, Darul Qasim Islamic Institute

Ebrahim Moosa, Ph.D.
Professor of Islamic Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame

Pre-Conference Workshop: An Introduction of Islamic Bioethics

 Aasim Padela, MD. MSc
Director of The Initiative on Islam and Medicine

Jawad Qureshi, Ph.D(c)
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American Islamic College

Opening Plenary

The Meeting Points of Moral Theology and Medical Care

Syed Hasan Raza Jafri MBBS
Assistant professor of Medicine,Division of Oncology, UT Health McGovern School of Medicine

Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim, Ph.D

Emeritus Professor, Comparative Religion, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban

The Soul and Holism in Healing

Ahsan Arozullah, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Astellas Pharma 

Neuroscientific Findings and Metaphysical Realities of the Soul

Noam Stadlan, MD
Neurosurgeon, Northshore University Health System, Chicago, IL

Faisal Qazi, DO
Associate Professor of Neurology, Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine 

Aamna Sajid
Undergraduate, Michigan State University

Doctors and Jurists in Dialogue: Framing the Discourses

Muhammed Volkan Yildiran Stodolsky, PhD

Chair, Department of Islamic Law, Darul Qasim Islamic Institute

Jawad Qureshi, Ph.D(c)
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American Islamic College

Researching Muslims/Islamic Bioethics

Roukayya Oueslati, MSc, MA
Lecturer & Researcher, Leiden University

Mehrunisha Suleman, BMBCh, MA, BA, MSc

PhD student, Research Ethics, Oxford University’s Ethox center

Taylor Purvis, MS1

John Hopkins School of Medicine