An Islamic framework for animal ethics: Widening the conversation to include Islamic ethical vegetarianism
This article explores normative ways of conceptualizing Islamic ethics, animal ethics, and the divergent positions on the ethical treatment of animals by Muslims within Islamic scholarly discourse. Too often, the literature addressing the intersection between Islamic ethics and animal ethics is narr...
| Authors: | ; |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Critical research on religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 263-280 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Protection of animals ethics
/ Animal rights
/ Ijtihad
/ Slaughtering
/ Factory farm
/ Vegetarianism
/ Ecofeminism
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Islamic Ethics
B ethical vegetarianism B halal slaughter B Animal welfare B Animal Rights B Ecofeminism |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | This article explores normative ways of conceptualizing Islamic ethics, animal ethics, and the divergent positions on the ethical treatment of animals by Muslims within Islamic scholarly discourse. Too often, the literature addressing the intersection between Islamic ethics and animal ethics is narrowly focused on the topic of halal slaughter. Therefore, this article proposes a wider conversation about an alternative relationship between Muslims and nonhuman animals in the industrialized factory farming era, suggesting that an ethical-vegetarian lifestyle may more accurately uphold the Islamic principles of compassion and mercy, as well as the Islamic practice of intellectual effort, ijtihad. At the very least, a reconceptualization to that end deserves rigorous consideration within Islamic scholarship, taking the debate beyond simply the moment and manner of an animal’s death. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/20503032231174209 |
