Niepełnosprawność w Islamie
Disability in Islam

Author(s): Maria Stojkow, Dorota Żuchowska-Skiba
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Islam studies, Religion and science , Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: disability; Islam; religion
Summary/Abstract: The expansion of reflection on the position of people with disabilities outside of Western culture is of particular importance today. As a result of processes taking place in today’s world, our society is changing ethnically and begins to diversify in terms of culture and religion (migration processes, refugees, etc.). In this sense, it is important to recreate ways of defining disabilities shaped under separate civilizational and cultural conditions so that people with disabilities can receive effective help. The main purpose of this chapter will be to show the perception of disability shaped under the influence of the Muslim religion. Islam regulates all spheres of life of its followers, thus reconstructing the ways of perceiving disability in the Koran and sunnah will allow to show ways in which the followers of this religion define this phenomenon and explain cultural patterns of social reactions to disability.

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