Disability in Islamic Law

Beschreibung

Neuware -1 When I completed my book Islamic Medical Ethics in the Twentieth Century , I was aware that I had omitted certain topics that I would have to return to. One of these was the ethical treatment of disabilities and the disabled, and of handicaps and the handicapped. Since responses to burning medical dilemmas within the wide field of medical ethics was the main focus of that book, it addressed ethical aspects of the doct- patient relationship, and contemporary Islamic debates on issues such as birth control and abortion, artificial insemination, organ transplants, postmortem exa- nations and euthanasia. The main source material was 20th-century fatwas (legal responses) issued by various Middle Eastern muftis. In this book I now wish to survey attitudes to the disabled and their disabilities as evinced by selected Sunni and Shi¿i legal compilations throughout 1400 years of scholarly Islamic activity, but also through contemporary fatwas. The sources used for this book are a selection ofmedieval as well as modern legal writings, medical books and articles in Arabic, books and articles on medicine from an Islamic religious point of view, Prophetic medicine, and the Qur¿an and medicine. I have scrutinized all these for their consideration of people with disabilities, and for the behavioral or social adjustments these people were offered, mainly through legal rulings.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 188 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Disability in Islamic Law

Verlag

Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Nov 2010

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

9048172667

ISBN-13

9789048172665

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

235B x 155 H x 11 T Millimeter Breite: 235 mm, Höhe: 155 mm, Tiefe: 11 mm

Gewicht

295 Gramm

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