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Description for Islam and AIDS
Paperback. Addresses the HIV/AIDS pandemic from an Islam perspective. This work provides an insight into fresh possibilities of critical and progressive Islamic approaches, in both law and ethics, to one of the urgent crises facing humankind. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; HRLP5; JFFH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Islam and AIDS is the first book to comprehensively address the HIV/AIDS pandemic from an Islamic perspective, with contributions from a number of internationally known activists and scholars of Islam, including Kecia Ali and Abdulaziz Sachedina. With an introduction by Peter Piot, Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, this landmark work provides an insight into new possibilities of critical and progressive Islamic approaches, in both law and ethics, to one of the most urgent crises facing humankind today. Covering emotive issues such as gender, justice, poverty, health, disease, addiction, and sexuality, Islam and AIDS provides the ... Read more
Islam and AIDS is the first book to comprehensively address the HIV/AIDS pandemic from an Islamic perspective, with contributions from a number of internationally known activists and scholars of Islam, including Kecia Ali and Abdulaziz Sachedina. With an introduction by Peter Piot, Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, this landmark work provides an insight into new possibilities of critical and progressive Islamic approaches, in both law and ethics, to one of the most urgent crises facing humankind today. Covering emotive issues such as gender, justice, poverty, health, disease, addiction, and sexuality, Islam and AIDS provides the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851686339
SKU
V9781851686339
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Ref
99-50
About Farid Esack
Farid Esack is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist. Former gender equity commissioner for Nelson Mandela, he was a founding member of both the AIDS Treatment Action Campaign and Positive Muslims. He is currently Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard University. Sarah Chiddy has master's degree from Harvard Divinity School and works as a spiritual ... Read more
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