Islam and AIDS: Between Scorn, Pity and Justice

Islam and AIDS: Between Scorn, Pity and Justice

Islam and AIDS: Between Scorn, Pity and Justice

Islam and AIDS: Between Scorn, Pity and Justice

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Overview

Opening the debate on how Islam should tackle the AIDS pandemic

"Islam and AIDS" is the first book to comprehensively address the HIV/AIDS pandemic from an Islam perspective, with contributions from a number of internationally known activists and scholars of Islam. Religious leaders, whether Muslim or Catholic, have been frequently accused of denying the AIDS pandemic and encouraging the stigmatization of its sufferers. While often true, this view ignores the fact that religious communities have also been at the forefront of addressing the epidemic, which affects over thirty million sufferers worldwide, and devastates the lives of many more. With an introduction by Peter Piot, Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, this landmark work provides an insight into new and exciting possibilities of critical and progressive Islamic approaches, in both law and ethics, to one of the most urgent crises facing humankind today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781851686339
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication date: 02/01/2009
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr Farid Esack has an international reputation as a Muslim scholar, speaker and human rights activist. He has lectured widely on religion and Islamic studies and also served as a Commissioner for Gender Equality with Nelson Mandela's government. He has authored numerous Islamic books and is currently the Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School.

Sarah Chiddy has master's degree from Harvard Divinity School and works as a spiritual counselor for people with HIV and AIDS in Boston.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword Peter Piot xi

Introduction Faird Esack Sarah Chiddy 1

1 Afflicted by God? Muslim Perspectives on Health and Suffering Abdulaziz Sachedina 13

2 The AIDS Crisis: an Islamic Perspective Malik Badri 28

3 AIDS and the Wrath of God Sindre Bangstad 43

4 When Fahishah Becomes Widespread: AIDS and the Ibn Maja Hadith Nabilah Siddiquee 59

5 The Shari'ah and AIDS: Towards a Theology of Compassion Mohammad Hashim Kamali 76

6 Gender Justice, Islam, and AIDS Clara Koh 88

7 Fatal Confluences? Islam, Gender, and AIDS in Malaysia Marina Mahathir 105

8 The Muslim Man and AIDS: Negotiating Spaces for New Conceptualizations of Masculinity Trad Godsey 119

9 AIDS, Muslims, and Homosexuality Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle Sarah Chiddy 137

10 On Sex, Sin, and Silence: An Islamic Theology of Storytelling of AIDS Awarness Kate Henley Long 154

11 The Qur'an, Poverty, and AIDS Caitlin Yoshiko Buysse 169

12 Muslims, AIDS, and Justice: Beyond Personal Indictment Kabir Sanjay Bavikatte 186

13 Injecting Drug Use, HIV, and AIDS in the Mulim World Chris Byrnes 196

14 HIV, Addiction, and Justice: Toward a Qur'anic Theology of Liberation Laura McTighe 211

Afterword: Ideals, Realities, and Islam: Thoughts on the AIDS Pandemic Kecia Ali 228

Notes on Contributors 236

Endnote 241

Index 251

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