Food Security and Islamic Ethics

Rights, Policies and Vulnerable Groups

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Bringing together an array of esteemed scholars, this insightful book considers how Islamic ethics influences responses to the pressing challenge of global sustainable food security.Food Security and Islamic Ethics explores three overarching areas: the world response to the challenge of sustainable food security; the Islamic perspective on addressing food security issues; and concerns for the most vulnerable groups facing this crisis, including women, children, migrants and the displaced. Chapters present in-depth case studies from locations across the globe, including Africa, Asia and North America. Ultimately, the book addresses how Islamic ethics can and does inform policy and practice in order to secure adequate food and nutrition for populations in the Muslim world and Muslims in non-Muslim countries.This incisive book is a crucial resource for students and academics concerned with ethics and Islam, development studies, agricultural economics and food security, sociology and anthropology. Infusing case studies with practical applications, it is also useful for think tank and NGO policymakers, alongside professionals specialising in food security in efforts to meet the second Sustainable Development Goal: zero hunger.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-29
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035333578

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Edited by Ray Jureidini, formerly Professor of Migration Ethics and Human Rights, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar, Said Fares Hassan, Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic and Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and Dalal Aassouli, Assistant Professor of Islamic and Sustainable Finance, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

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‘By combining academic rigour with practical relevance, this book not only enriches theoretical discussions in development studies but also provides a concrete framework for implementing more inclusive and sustainable policies.’

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ContentsIntroduction to Food Security and Islamic Ethics 1 Ray Jureidini, Said Fares Hassan and Dalal AassouliPART I FOOD SECURITY, SDGS, AND THE ISLAMIC ETHICS NEXUS: PRINCIPLES AND FOUNDATIONS 1 Food security: a maqaṣid-led scriptural investigation into Muslim tradition 12Muhammad Fawzy Hasan ‘AbdelHay2 Security, sovereignty, or sustainability of food in Islam? A Wasaṭiyyah economics model 40Mohammad A.R. Alsaghir and Faizal A. Manjoo3 Food security, sustainable development, and Islamic ethics: a model of harmonization 63Marwan Haddad4 Neither fish nor flesh: re-examining animal agriculture and food security from a Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah perspective 89Zinnira Shaikh5 Curbing food insecurity through GM foods: Islamic ethical perspectives 115Naeema HalimPART II FOOD SECURITY AND ISLAMIC ETHICS: MUSLIM UNDERSTANDINGS AND PRAXIS 6 Power, food (in)security and (non)state actors in Southwest Asia and North Africa: case studies on Egypt, Iran, and Palestine (Gaza) 136Jennifer C. Olmsted 7 Ethicised Shari‘ah: food sustainability as Islamic ethics by British Muslims 168 Tessie Bundgaard Jorgensen 8 Food waste and the contest of incentives: Egypt as a case study 187 Abdullah Ibrahim Omran 9 Islamic green finance and food security: opportunities and challenges for the OIC countries 210 Dalal Aassouli 10 The Islamic virtue of temperance and food security: evidence from Cape Town, South Africa 237 Sumaya Hassan PART III FOOD SECURITY, VULNERABLE GROUPS, AND ISLAMIC ETHICS: NEED FOR ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT 11 Food insecurity among Toronto Muslim households during COVID and the role of key Muslim charitable institutions 266 Amjad Mohamed-Saleem and Imam Irshad Osman 12 Ethics and food security in Qatar 291 Ray Jureidini, Said Fares Hassan and Dalal Aassouli Index 314