{"id":3628,"date":"2017-08-22T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:38:33","slug":"dr-mansur-ali-shifting-discourse-in-the-muslim-organ-donation-debate-reports-of-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/dr-mansur-ali-shifting-discourse-in-the-muslim-organ-donation-debate-reports-of-finding\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Mansur Ali &#8211; Shifting discourse in the Muslim organ donation debate: reports of finding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image pull-left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/575\/2017\/08\/Research-Seminar-on-The-Muslim-Organ-Donation-Debate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"170\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The Human Transplantation Act (Wales) 2013, otherwise known as the \u2018Law of presumed consent\u2019 has caused a panic in the Muslim community. There are concerns that this law will interfere with religious sensibilities and dignity of the body in Islam. Based on a very small-scale research, the speaker explores some of these concerns. He argues that the organ donation debate in Islam is slowly moving towards charitable acceptance and not only tolerance out of necessity. He also touches upon how the body, death and dying are conceptualised in Islam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The video below is a clip from \u00a0a research seminar held by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almahdi.edu\/component\/content\/article\/8-news-events\/421-research-seminar-shifting-discourse-in-the-muslim-organ-donation-debate-reports-of-finding\">Al-Mahdi Institute on 27th April 2017 on\u00a0Shifting discourse in the Muslim organ donation debate: reports of finding.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shifting discourse Muslim organ donation debate: reports on finding | Mansur Ali | Research Seminar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pu5f43pwFBw?start=2222&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Human Transplantation Act (Wales) 2013, otherwise known as the \u2018Law of presumed consent\u2019 has caused a panic in the Muslim community. There are concerns that this law will interfere [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/islamukcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}