Table of Contents
Preface x
Comments and Abbreviations xii
Saying of Some Muslim Sages 1
Chapter 1 Islamic Concern for Animals 2
Preamble 2
Man's Dominion Over Animals 4
Animals' Place in Nature 10
a Balance in Nature 11
b Conservation of Species 12
c Faculty of Speech 16
d The Utility-Value 17
e The Metaphysics of the Animal Mind 18
f Rights in the Resources of Nature 21
The Servitude of Animals 25
The Islamic Juristic Rules 26
Experiments on Animals 27
Human Needs and Interests (Al-Ma&bdot;&abar;li&hbdot;) 30
Vivisection 33
Factory-Farming 39
General Reforms of Islam 45
The Moral Appeal of Islam 46
Beasts of Burden 47
Mental Cruelty 48
Slaughter of Food Animals 49
Conclusion 50
References and Notes 52
Chapter 2 Vegetarianism v/s Meatarianism 56
Preamble 56
The Dialectics of Diet and Health 58
The Importance of Vitamins 60
The Anatomy of Man 63
The Economics of Food 65
Confucianism 71
Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism 73
Christianity 80
Judaism and Islam 82
References and Notes 92
Chapter 3 Animal Sacrifice 96
Preamble 96
The Ancient Orient 97
Confucianism 97
Hinduism 98
Jainism 99
Buddhism 99
Christianity 99
Judaism 100
The Biblical Concept of God 101
Concepts of God 103
Atonement 103
The Judaic Theology of Sacrifice 104
The Cultus of Sacrifice 105
Biblical Condemnation of Sacrifice 106
The Rabbinship (Priesthood) 109
The Meaning of Sacrifice 109
War-Living Graves 110
Islam 111
The Prelude to Islamic Sacrifice 112
The Islamic Theology of Sacrifice 114
Sacrifice as Charity and Alternative Offerings 116
Sacrifice by Proxy 122
The Three Kinds of Sacrifices 124
Appendix A 126
Referencesand Notes 128
Chapter 4 &Hbdot;al&abar;l Meat-the Bone of Contention 131
Preamble 131
Lawful and Unlawful Meat 133
The Qur'&abar;nic Dietary Ordinances 134
Food of the "People of The Book" 139
The Paradoxical Enigma of Pork 140
Is Jewish Food &Hbdot;al&abar;l? 143
Blood 145
The Invocation of God's Name (Tasmiyah and Takb&ibar;r) 145
The Relative Significance of Bleeding and the Invocation of God's Name 153
References and Notes 156
Index 159
