Animals in Islamic Traditions and Muslim

This book, the first of its kind, surveys Islamic and Muslim attitudes towards animals, and human responsiblities towards them, through Islam's philosophy, literature, mysticism and art.

Richard C. Foltz is Visiting Scholar at Concordia University, Montreal

Preface

xi

Introduction: Islam, Muslims, and Non-Human Animals

1

(7)

Muslims and Islam: Some Facts and Definitions

8

(3)

Animals in Islamic Source Texts

11

(18)

The Role of Arab Norms

12

(3)

Cosmic Hierarchy in the Qur'an

15

(2)

The Hadiths

17

(8)

Meat-eating and Slaughter

25

(4)

Animals in Islamic Law

29

(18)

Animals in the Classical Legal Texts

31

(5)

Laws Pertaining to Animals as Food

32

(1)

Obligations of Humans Towards Animals

32

(1)

Wild Animals

33

(1)

Domestic Animals

34

(2)

The Basis for Wildlife conservation in Islamic Law

36

(5)

Hunting to Extinction

37

(2)

Wildlife Preserves in Islamic Law

39

(2)

The Need for a New Jurisprudence

41

(6)

Initiatives at Al-Azhar

44

(3)

Animals in Philosophy and Science

47

(18)

Animals in Islamic Philosophy

47

(7)

The Case of the Animals versus Man

49

(4)

Alive, Son of Awake

53

(1)

Scientific Works on Animals

54

(11)

The Book of Animals

55

(4)

The Lives of Animals

59

(6)

Animals in Literature and Art

65

(20)

Animals in Muslim Literature

66

(1)

Animals in Arabic Literature

66

(6)

Kalila and Dimna

68

(2)

The Thousand and One Nights

70

(2)

Animals in Persian Literature

72

(10)

The Parrot Book

72

(4)

Sufi Literature

76

(1)

The Conference of the Birds

77

(1)

Jalal al-din Rumi

78

(2)

Other Sufi Sources

80

(2)

Animals in Art

82

(3)

Contemporary Muslim Views on Animal Rights

85

(20)

B. A. Masri

89

(5)

Said Nursi

94

(3)

Advocacy on the Internet

97

(2)

Not a Mainstream View

99

(1)

Contemporary Muslim Views on Wildlife Conservation

100

(5)

Towards an Islamic Vegetarianism

105

(24)

Islamic Vegetarianism on the Rise

110

(4)

Compassion for Animals

114

(2)

Determining Lawful Foods: A Growing Challenge for Muslims

116

(4)

Islamic Social Justice and Animal Rights

120

(1)

To Kill or Not to Kill?

121

(4)

Food for Thought

125

(4)

Muslim Attitudes Towards Dogs

129

(16)

Dogs in Muslim Literature

135

(4)

Dogs in Sufi Literature

139

(2)

Some Modern-Day Muslim Defenders of Dogs

141

(4)

Conclusions

145

(8)

Notes

153

(20)

Bibliography

173

(8)

Organizations

181

(4)

Index

185

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