Citation

Bengtsson S. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 2018; 20(1): 210-218.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018)

DOI

10.16993/sjdr.18

PMID

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Abstract

This article elaborates on disability and the Qur'an and accentuates how a grand narrative of moral codes held the community together and enforced a collective identity of the ummah, in which disability was interlaced with the shaping of an in-group grounded in a common set of values. This process of identity making in turn had implications for people with disabilities, since they could have trouble fulfilling religious requirements, something that was met with counter mechanisms of solidarity within the community of Muslim believers. © 2018 The Author(s).

Language: en

Keywords

adult; disability; human; suicide; law; female; male; Community; Disability; medical ethics; major clinical study; social adaptation; psychoanalysis; responsibility; health care organization; community care; middle aged; medical society; international cooperation; intellectual impairment; Article; observational study; young adult; family planning; Collective identity; analytical parameters; attitude assessment; diagnostic reasoning; semantic memory; The Qur’an