title: The Islamic Approach to Modern Forensic and Legal Medicine Issues.
abstract: This article is a review, from a Saudi Arabian perspective, of selected historical Arabic books and recent medicolegal journal articles on 4 current controversial issues: medical ethics, forensic autopsies, end-of-life decisions, and genetic profiling. This article demonstrates the flexibility of the Islamic medical jurisprudence to accommodate medicolegal issues.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Dammam Forensic and Legal Medicine Centre, Dammam, Saudi Arabia; and †Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department, Beni Suef University, Egypt.
authors.forename: Manal Saeed
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Bamousa
authors.forename: Suha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Al-Fehaid
authors.forename: Osama
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Al-Madani
authors.forename: Salah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Al Moghannam
authors.forename: Sherien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Galeb
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Youssef
authors.forename: Magdy A A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kharoshah
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D001926:Brain Death; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam; D010334:Paternity; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D028761:Withholding Treatment