Full Description
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.
Contents
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
