Islam Disability Resources

News and Resources

Ramadan Despair: Dilshad Ali on raising a child with autism

Books

Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence (Routledge Islamic Studies Series)

Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis

Disability in Islamic Law (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies

Bibliography

Some Influences of Religions on Attitudes Towards Disabilities and People with Disabilities

M. Miles, “Some Influences of Religions on Attitudes Towards Disabilities and People with Disabilities”, Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, vol. 6, pp. 117–129, 2002.

Islam and the person with intellectual disability

M. Morad, Nasri, Y., and Merrick, J., “Islam and the person with intellectual disability”, Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, vol. 5, pp. 65–71, 2001.

Physical and spiritual treatment of disability in Islam: perspectives of early and modern jurists

M. M. I. Ghaly, “Physical and spiritual treatment of disability in Islam: perspectives of early and modern jurists”, Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, vol. 12, pp. 105–143, 2008.

Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence

M. M. I. Ghaly, Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence, vol. 11. Routledge, 2009.

Writings on Disability in Islam: The 16th-Century Polemic on Ibn Fahd's" al-Nukat al-Ziraf"

M. M. I. Ghaly, “Writings on Disability in Islam: The 16th-Century Polemic on Ibn Fahd's" al-Nukat al-Ziraf"”, The Arab Studies Journal, vol. 13, pp. 9–38, 2005.