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Avoiding Harm : A Muslim Response to COVID-19 / A. Rashied Omar ; conclusion by R. Scott Appleby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Omar, A. Rashied, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- COVID-19 (Disease)--Religious aspects--Islam.
- COVID-19 (Disease).
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Religious aspects--Islam.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, OR : Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2023]
- Summary:
- Research scholars have lamented the fact that most of the extant studies on religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic focus on a particular religious group, typically Christian. This book fills this lacuna by providing some useful insights into how one Muslim religious institution responded to the pandemic. It portrays the sermons, advice, and guidance provided to the Claremont Main Road Mosque (CMRM) congregation in Cape Town, South Africa, by its Imams and elected board of governors during the course of the pandemic. The book carries a concluding chapter by Professor R. Scott Appleby, an expert in the study of lived religion, who critically reflects on this collection of sermons and the response of the mosque by providing some independent ruminations on the themes of religion, science, and the human person.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781666774818
- 1666774812
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