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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture:Islam and Science in Modern Egypt - Professor Kh
 aled Fahmy\, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa'id Professor of Modern Arabi
 c Studies
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DESCRIPTION:In 1829\, the first dissection lesson to be performed in Egypt
  was delivered in a newly constructed medical school at the outskirts of C
 airo. The lecturer was a French doctor who had recently arrived from Marse
 illes\, and the audience were young students who had just graduated from a
 l-Azhar University-Mosque\, Egypt’s 900-year old centre of Islamic educa
 tion.\nThis lecture takes its cue from this historic moment of opening up 
 human cadavers in the name of modern science. It describes how dissection 
 was instituted as a central practice in the Qasr al-‘Aini School of Medi
 cine\, Egypt’s first institution of modern medicine\nthat had been found
 ed two years earlier\, in 1827. It also follows the increasing reliance of
  a budding legal system on autopsies as a prime means to establish legal p
 roof in criminal cases. At the heart of the lecture is a fundamental quest
 ion: to whom does the body belong? Is it to the “person” inhabiting it
 \, or to the modern state that lays a fundamentally new claim on it? Does 
 it\nbelong to the community in which it used to live\, and which honors an
 d protects it after death? Or to God who\, according to classic Islamic do
 gma\, entrusted it to man to fulfill His wish in this world? The lecture w
 ill attempt to answer these large questions not by\nreading manuals on Isl
 amic jurisprudence\, secular legal codes\, modern medical textbooks or pub
 lic hygiene blueprints. Rather\, the lecture is based on a close reading o
 f legal and medical documents housed in the Egyptian National Archives\, d
 ocuments which are\nrevealing of how different segments of Egyptian societ
 y understood and reacted to the disturbing practice of opening up cadavers
 . As such\, the lecture suggests how forensic medicine can be a lens throu
 gh which a Muslim society’s encounter with modern science can be underst
 ood.\n\nEventbrite link\, to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inaugu
 ral-lecture-professor-khaled-fahmy-tickets-42943033770
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Corpus Christi College
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