Disability in the Islamic Tradition

This article gives an overview of how disability, or more broadly the phenomenon of "physical/mental otherness", was represented in the Islamic tradition. It is argued that the pre-modern Islamic tradition had a significantly different approach to this phenomenon than the approaches produc...

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Main Author: Ghaly, Mohammed 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
In: Religion compass
Year: 2016, Volume: 10, Issue: 6, Pages: 149-162
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Handicap / Disparity / Terminology / Islam / History 600-1600
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
NBE Anthropology
TE Middle Ages
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Literature report
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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