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Exploring Islamic Social Work Between Community and the Common Good /

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This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schmid, Hansjörg (Editor), Sheikhzadegan, Amir (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Series:Muslims in Global Societies Series, 9
Subjects:
Religion and sociology.
Islam > Doctrines.
Biotechnology.
Social policy.
Sociology of Religion.
Islamic Theology.
Social Policy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Islamic Social Work - An Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The Maqāṣid-cum-maṣlaḥa Approach as Theological Basis of Islamic Social Work. A Critical Analysis and an Alternative Proposal
  • Chapter 3. Islamic Social Ethics, Social Work and the Common Good: Learning from the European Context
  • Chapter 4. Social Work through the Prism of the Religious Facts. Islam in Questions
  • Chapter 5. Islamic Social Work. A Potential Response to Marginalisation
  • Chapter 6. Human Dignity, Common Good and Social Welfare: Towards an Islamic Relational Social Ethics
  • Chapter 7. Family Counselling as a Field of Islamic Social Work
  • Chapter 8. Helping the Muslims or Contributing to Society? Insight into the Paradoxes of Islamic Social Work through Concrete Cases linked to Social Exclusion
  • Chapter 9. The Religious Community. A Space that Facilitates Successful Resettlement for Muslim Offenders
  • Chapter 10. Facing Radicalisation: Islamic Counter-Speech and Social Work
  • Chapter 11. Social Work andCounter-Radicalisation. A Critical Reflection
  • Chapter 12. Islamic Practical Theology: A Socio-ethical and Interdisciplinary Approach
  • Chapter 13. "Epistemic Weight" of Praxis in the Production and Teaching of New Knowledge in Islamic Practical Theology.

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