Exploring Islamic Social Work

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Increasing Spiritual Sensitivity and Faith-Based Service Provision: Pathways to Islamic Social Work

   • Hansjörg Schmid, Amir Sheikhzadegan

   Pages 1-23Open Access

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3. Target Groups and Contexts of Islamic Social Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Helping Muslims or Contributing to Society? Insights into the Paradoxes of Islamic Social Work for the Excluded

      • Baptiste Brodard

      Pages 27-45Open Access

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   3. The Religious Community: A Space that Facilitates Successful Resettlement for Muslim Offenders

      • Lamia Irfan

      Pages 47-64Open Access

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   4. Secularism, Social Work and Muslim Minorities in France

      • Daniel Verba, Faïza Guélamine

      Pages 65-80Open Access

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   5. Identity, Intersectionality and Children in Care: The Case of Muslim-Heritage ‘Looked-After’ Children in the UK

      • Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Alison Halford, Mphatso Boti Phiri

      Pages 81-97Open Access

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   6. Islamic Social Work within the Framework of the Welfare System: Observations from the German Case

      • Hansjörg Schmid

      Pages 99-117Open Access

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4. Theological and Ethical Discourse on Islamic Social Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Islamic Social Ethics, Social Work and the Common Good: Learning from Western Contexts

      • Dilwar Hussain

      Pages 121-136Open Access

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   3. The maqāṣid-cum-maṣlaḥa Approach as Theological Basis for Islamic Social Work: A Critical Analysis and an Alternative Proposal

      • Serdar Kurnaz

      Pages 137-150Open Access

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   4. Islamic Practical Theology: waqf and zakāt as Theological Foundations

      • Tarek Badawia

      Pages 151-164Open Access

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   5. An ‘Epistemic Weight’ of Islamic Practical Theology in Contemporary Islamic Social Work

      • Nazila Isgandarova

      Pages 165-177Open Access

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   6. Islam, Social Work and Common Good in the Muslim Minority Context of Europe: Rethinking Shariʿa as Relational Ethics

      • Abdullah Sahin

      Pages 179-200Open Access

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5. Perspectives and Contributions to Alternative Social Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Anti-oppressive Practice in Social Work with Women Wearing Hijab

      • Rojan Afrouz, Beth R. Crisp

      Pages 203-218Open Access

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   3. Social Work and Muslim Welfare: A Women’s Grassroots Association

      • Jussra Schröer, Birsen Ürek

      Pages 219-232Open Access

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   4. The Role of tawba (Repentance) in Social Work with Muslim Clients

      • Somaya Abdullah

      Pages 233-248Open Access

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   5. Islamic Principles, Inclusivity and Revitalisation in Conceptual Frameworks for Western Social Work

      • Sara Ashencaen Crabtree

      Pages 249-264Open Access

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   6. Quo Vadis, Islamic Social Work? Empirical Findings and Theoretical Reflections Converging towards an Alternative Approach

      • Hansjörg Schmid, Amir Sheikhzadegan

      Pages 265-284Open Access

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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 and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educational programmes, family counselling, and resettlement of prisoners. Although in many cases, these activities are oriented towards Muslim clients, more often than not they go beyond the boundaries of Muslim communities to benefit society as a whole. Muslim actors are also starting to professionalise their services and to negotiate the ways in which they can become fully recognised service-providers within the welfare state. At a more general level, the volume also shows that in contrast to the widespread processes of secularisation of social work and its separation from religious communities, newtypes of activities are now emerging, which bring back to the public arena both an increased sensitivity to the religious identities of the beneficiaries and the religious motivations of the benefactors. The edited volume will be of interest to researchers in Islamic Studies, Social and Political Sciences, Social Work, and Religious Studies.

This is an open access book.

• Family Counselling Muslims
• Islam Social Work
• Marginalization Muslims
• Open Access
• Practical Theology Islam
• Radicalization Prevention
• Resettlement Muslims Prison
• Segregation Islam
• Social Ethics Islam
• Social Welfare Islam
• Spirituality in Social Work

• Swiss Center for Islam and Society, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

  Hansjörg Schmid

• Department of Social Work Social Policy and Global Development, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

  Amir Sheikhzadegan

Hansjörg Schmid is director of the Swiss Center for Islam and Society and professor for interreligious ethics at the University of Fribourg, he was the founder and coordinator of the Theological Forum Christianity – Islam, his research is focused on interreligious social ethics and on Muslims in European societies with a focus on chaplaincy and social work.

Amir Sheikzadegan, PhD in Sociology from the University of Zurich, is a senior researcher both at the Department of Social Work, Social Policy and Global Development of the University of Fribourg. Topics of his research include Islam between tradition and modernity, political Islam, narrative identity, civic engagement, spiritual care, and qualitative social research.

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