Disability in Islamic Law

• Main Author: Rispler-Chaim, Vardit (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 32
• Subjects: Religion.; Ethics.; Law.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.; Law, general.

The book analyzes attitudes to people with various disabilities based on Muslim jurists’ works (fiqh) in the Middle Ages and the modern era. In the Islamic legal literature people with disabilities are mentioned sporadically, and often within broad topics such as religious duties, jihad, marriage, e...