ENGLISH – Dr. Hadil Lababidi

Dr. Hadil Lababidi

Dr. Hadil Lababidi is a lecturer for Islamic medical and biomedical ethics at University of Zurich since 2024.

She completed her PhD degree in 2023 and was awarded the Dissertation Prize 2023 from the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO).

Dr. Lababidi focuses on medical ethical issues at the end of life from an Islamic perspective. She has a Master of Arts from Leiden University in Modern Middle East Studies with 8+ years of experience in assisting research projects and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg on Islamic ethics.

As a lecturer at the University of Zurich, Dr. Lababidi is responsible for the Master`s program „Health in the Context of Ethics, Spirituality and Religions“.

Furthermore, Lababidi serves as a committee member of the International Islamic Bioethics Association (IIBA) since 2025.

^{Hadil Lababidi’s doctoral thesis on »Rūḥ and Nafs: From Breath of Life to Selfhood. Basic Questions of Bioethics in Islam Using the Example of Tube Feeding at the End of Life in Dementia» (in German).}

Dr. Lababidi`s doctoral thesis deals with the question of whether artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) can be refused at the end of life. She has already begun to publish findings from her dissertation. Dr. Lababidi`s article »Artificial Nutrition and Hydration in Terminally-ill Dementia Patients and the Islamic Moral Tradition« has been published in the Studies of Islamic Ethics in 2022.

In 2023, Dr. Lababidi´s thesis »Rūḥ und Nafs: Vom Lebenshauch zur Selbstheit. Grundfragen der Bioethik im Islam am Beispiel der Sondenernährung am Lebensende bei Demenz« [»Rūḥ and Nafs: From Breath of Life to Selfhood. Basic Questions of Bioethics in Islam Using the Example of Tube Feeding at the End of Life in Dementia»] is published (in German) at EB-Verlag.

As a co-editor of the Journal of Medicine, Ethics & Islam, Dr. Lababidi intends to further promote marginalized topics in Islam and medical ethics.

Here you can get a glimpse of Dr. Lababidi`s research at this Zoom lecture on „Tube Feeding in Dementia at the End of Life from an Islamic Perspective“ hold on August 16, 2023 at Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Faculty of Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia).

^{Dr. Hadil Lababidi on „Tube Feeding in Dementia at the End of Life from an Islamic Perspective“}