Prof. Dr. Thomas Eich
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| current position since 2010 | Professor for Islamic Studies, University of Hamburg |
| 2017 - 2010 |
Assistant Professor at the Oriental Studies Seminar, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (On leave 9/08-2/09 as Visiting Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University) |
| 2006 - 2007 | Executive head of research group „Bioethical issues in the context of Islamic law“ at the Seminar of Oriental Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) |
| 2005 - 2006 |
Assistant Professor on a one-year contract at the Seminar of Oriental Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
| 2003 – 2005 | Executive head of research group „Bioethical issues in the context of Islamic law“ at the Seminar of Oriental Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) |
| 2002 |
Ph.D., Seminar of Oriental and Indian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
| 1999 |
Master of Arts, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany |
Publications
Monographs
Abu l-Huda as-Sayyadi: eine Studie zur Instrumentalisierung sufischer Netzwerke und genealogischer Kontroversen im spätosmanischen Reich. Berlin (Klaus Schwarz Verlag) 2002. (Dissertation)
Islamische Bioethik – Eine kritische Analyse der modernen Diskussionen im islamischen Recht, Wiesbaden (Reichert Verlag) 2005.
Edited Volumes
Thomas Eich / Thomas S. Hoffmann (eds.), Kulturübergreifende Bioethik zwischen globaler Herausforderung und regionaler Perspektive. Freiburg (Trabert Verlag) 2006.
Brockopp, Jon E. / Thomas Eich (eds.), Muslim Medical Ethics. From Theory to Practice, Columbia, SC (University of South Carolina Press) 2008.
Articles in peer reviewed journals
“Induced miscarriage in early Maliki and Hanafi fiqh”, Islamic Law and Society, 16 (2009), 302-36.
“A Tiny Membrane Defending “Us” Against “Them”: The Arabic Internet Debate from 2007 about Hymenorraphy in Sunni Islamic Law”, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 12.7 (2010), 755-69.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Bioethics”, Encyclopedia of Islam3, vol. II, 102-108.
“Genetic testing”, Encyclopedia of Islam3, vol. III, p.96-98.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“The Cloning Debate among Muslim Religious Scholars since 1997. An Overview”, in Heiner Roetz (ed.), Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics: The example of Human Cloning, Amsterdam (Rodopi) 2005, 291-309.
„Die Diskussion islamischer Rechtsgelehrter um pre-marital screening und die Abtreibung behinderter Embryonen“, in Eich / Hoffmann (eds.), Kulturübergreifende Bioethik, 2006, 152-178.
“Decision making processes among contemporary ‘Ulama’ : ‘Islamic Embryology’ and the discussion about ‘Frozen Embryos’ ”, in Brockopp / Eich (eds.), Muslim Medical Ethics, 2008, 61-77.
“Verfügungsrechte am eigenen Körper in der sharia am Beispiel von Schönheitsoperationen, Intersexualität und Hymen Restauration”, in Döring, Ole / Steineck, Christian (eds.), Kultur und Bioethik: Eigentum am eigenen Körper, Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2008, 149-162.
with Björn Bentlage. „Negotiating Islamic Identity in Egypt through Bioethics: Contesting ‘the West’ and Saudi Arabia”, in Myser, Catherine (ed.), Bioethics around the Globe. Oxford (OUP) 2011, 216-244.
“Constructing Kinship in Sunni Islamic Legal Texts”, in Inhorn, Marcia C. / Tremayne, Soraya (eds.), Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies. New York / Oxford (Berghahn) 2012, 27-52.
Outreach
„Zwischen nützlicher Technologie und Teufelswerk. Was muslimische Rechtsgelehrte zum Klonen sagen“ [Between useful technology and devil’s work. What Islamic religious scholars say about cloning], Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Nr. 73 (27.3.2004).
“Bioethik und Islam” [Bioethics and Islam], Teilkapitel im online-Dossier “Bioethik” der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung [Chapter in the online-dossier Bioethics of the Federal Agency of Civic Education], January 2009 (online: http://www.bpb.de/themen/220LWB) [updated 2013].
“Gottes Wille im Genom” [God’s Will in the Genome], Die ZEIT, Nr. 37 (06.09.2007).
Moderne Medizin und Islamische Ethik. Biowissenschaften in der muslimischen Rechtstradition. Ausgewählt, übersetzt und kommentiert von Thomas Eich. [Modern Medicine and Islamic Ethics. Bioscience in the Muslim Legal Tradition. Selected, translated and commented on by Thomas Eich], Freiburg i. Br. (Herder Verlag) 2008.
„PID im zeitgenössischen sunnitischen Recht“ [PGD in Contemporary Sunni Jurisprudence], Informationen zur ethischen Bildung, 1/2011, 22-25.
Contributions to “Contending Modernities. A blog about Catholic, Muslim, and Secular interaction in the modern world” (online: http://blogs.nd.edu/contendingmodernities/category/science-the-human-person/).