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Islam and AIDS: Between Scorn, Pity, and Justice by Farid Esack β€” book cover

Islam and AIDS: Between Scorn, Pity, and Justice

by Farid Esack
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Overview

Islam and AIDS is the first book to comprehensively address the HIV/AIDS pandemic from an Islam perspective, with contributions from a number of internationally known activists and scholars of Islam. 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.

Synopsis

Islam and AIDS is the first book to comprehensively address the HIV/AIDS pandemic from an Islam perspective, with contributions from a number of internationally known activists and scholars of Islam. 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.

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Book Details

Published
February 1, 2009
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pages
300
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781851686339

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