ISLAM, SCIENCE AND ETHICS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Trivent Publishing, H-1119 Budapest, Etele u. 59-61
Imprint: Trivent Transhumanism
Imprint head: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University
SERIES EDITOR
Hureyre Kam, Institute for Islamic Theology and Religious Education, University of Innsbruck, Hureyre.Kam@uibk.ac.at
Dr. Hureyre Kam is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Islamic Theology and Religious Education, University of Innsbruck, where he focuses on the interplay between Islamic theology, philosophy, and emerging technologies. He holds a PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt and has conducted research as a Feodor Lynen Fellow at Yale University (2021). His work critically examines post- and transhumanism from kalām perspectives, including publications such as “New Bottles for Old Wine? On Playing God: Post- and Transhumanism from the Perspective of Kalām” (Journal of Posthuman Studies, 2023), “The Matrix: A Modern-Day Metaphor for Spiritual Truth?” (Journal of Muslims in Europe, 2024), and “Navigating the Anthropocene” (Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 2024). He guest-edited the special issue “Transhumanism & Islam” for the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies (2024) and organized the international conference “Sacred Cyborgs: Exploring the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism and Religion” at Innsbruck (2025). Currently editing a related volume for Routledge, his research bridges classical Islamic thought with pressing ethical questions in science and technology.
ABOUT THE SERIES
"Islam, Science, and Ethics of Emerging Technologies" is an interdisciplinary book series dedicated to exploring how Islamic intellectual traditions engage with contemporary scientific developments and emerging technologies. The series brings Islamic theology, philosophy, ethics, and law into critical dialogue with fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, neuroscience, digital culture, environmental science, and transhumanist thought.
Rather than approaching Islam as a static tradition, the series foregrounds its dynamic epistemological resources—kalam, philosophy (ḥikma), jurisprudence (fiqh), ethics (akhlāq), and spirituality (taṣawwuf)—as living frameworks capable of addressing technological transformation, moral uncertainty, and anthropological change. Particular attention is given to questions of personhood, agency, responsibility, embodiment, human enhancement, algorithmic decision-making, and ecological crisis in the Anthropocene.
The series welcomes monographs and edited volumes that are theoretically rigorous, historically grounded, and normatively reflective. It aims to foster dialogue between Islamic studies and the natural sciences, science and technology studies (STS), philosophy of technology, bioethics, and AI ethics, addressing both Muslim and non-Muslim scholarly audiences.
Key topics include (but are not limited to):
• Islamic perspectives on artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital personhood
• Bioethics, neuroscience, and the boundaries of life and death
• Human enhancement, transhumanism, and posthumanism
• Science, cosmology, and Islamic metaphysics
• Responsibility ethics, environmental ethics, and the Anthropocene
• Technology, normativity, and religious epistemology
• Comparative and interreligious approaches to ethics of emerging technologies"
