Islam, Muslims, and Covid-19

The Intersection of Ethics, Health and Social Life in the Diaspora
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-67976-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

Reihe: Muslim Minorities

This volume brings together diverse disciplinary perspectives to provide a multidisciplinary and multidimensional account of Muslim ethics operating in the COVID-19 era, where scriptural values, lived experiences, societal structures, and cultural contexts combine in fresh and diverse ways. Indeed, Islamic ethical evaluation often ignores contributions from the social sciences, and contextual factors are not fully understood when issuing Islamic edicts. This volume thus aims at a more connected account of how religious concerns generated challenges and how Muslims lived out their religious values during the pandemic. Alongside descriptive accounts are normative evaluations, and insights from interviews are connected with survey analyses; in this way, the chapters render a more complete account of the intersectional engagement of Muslim healthcare professionals and community members living in minority contexts with the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al-Deen, Aminah

Padela, Aasim I

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Aasim I. Padela and Aminah Al-Deen

1 Aligning Public Health Mandates with Religious Goals: Developing Islamic Bioethical Guidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Aasim I. Padela and Shafiq W. Ahmed

2 Examining the Intersection of Healthcare Advocacy, Religion, and Community During a Global Pandemic

Anam Tariq, Marium Husain and Sana Syed

3 Effects of COVID-19 on the Healthcare Coverage of Immigrant Populations

Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, Maham Mirza, Moina Hussain, Aisha Zafar, Urooj Rehman and Fatema Mirza

4 Muslim Healthcare Workers in the Time of COVID-19

Aminah Al-Deen and Constance Shabazz

5 Religiosity, Coping, and Mental Health: An Empirical Analysis of Muslims Across the COVID-19 Pandemic

Osman Umarji, Aafreen A. Mahmood, Leena Raza and Rania Awaad

6 African-American Muslims’ Reflections on the Pandemic

Diane Ameena Mitchell

7 COVID-19 and US Islamic Schools: Responsive, Resourceful, and Resilient

Shaza Khan

8 An Examination of Ramadan Fasting and COVID-19 Outcomes in the UK

Karim Mitha, Salman Waqar, Miqdad Asaria, Mehrunisha Suleiman and Nazim Ghouri

9 An Islamic Ethico-Legal Framework for Pandemics: The Case for COVID-19

Rafaqat Rashid

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aminah Al-Deen, Ph.D. (1993) is Professor Emerita of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. Her book publications include: African American Islam, Questions of Faith, Transnational Muslims in America, Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century, Global Muslims in the 21st Century, History of Arab Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots and Muslim Ethics in the 21st Century.

Aasim I. Padela, MD (2005, Weill Cornell Medical College) is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Bioethics and the Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is an internationally renowned clinician-researcher with scholarly foci at the intersections of healthcare, bioethics, and religion. He has authored over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and co-edited three books: Medicine and Shariah: A Dialogue in Islamic Bioethics (UND Press 2021; Islam and Biomedicine (Springer 2022) and Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics and Society (Lexington 2023). His forthcoming monograph is titled Maqasid al-Shari'ah and Biomedicine: Integrating Moral and Policy Frameworks. His work and expert commentary has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, National Public Radio, BBC, and CNN.