scholarly journals Respect for Religiosity: Review of Faith Integration in Health and Wellbeing Interventions with Muslim Minorities

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 692
Author(s):  
Helen McLaren ◽  
Emi Patmisari ◽  
Mohammad Hamiduzzaman ◽  
Michelle Jones ◽  
Renee Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Study Characteristics ◽  
Intervention Content ◽  
Faith Integration ◽  
Knowledge Of Persons ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Muslim Minorities

Integration of religion in community health and wellbeing interventions is important for achieving a good life among faith-based populations. In countries hosting Muslim-minorities, however, relatively little is reported in academic literature on processes of faith integration in the development and delivery of interventions. We undertook a review of peer reviewed literature on health and wellbeing interventions with Muslim-minorities, with specific interest on how Islamic principles were incorporated. Major databases were systematically searched and PRISMA guidelines applied in the selection of eligible studies. Twenty-one journal articles met the inclusion criteria. These were coded and analyzed thematically. Study characteristics and themes of religiosity are reported in this review, including the religious tailoring of interventions, content co-creation and delivery design based on the teachings from the Quran and Sunnah, and applicability of intervention structures. We reviewed the philosophical and structural elements echoing the Quran and Islamic principles in the intervention content reported. However, most studies identified that the needs of Muslim communities were often overlooked or compromised. This may be due to levels of religio-cultural knowledge of persons facilitating community health and wellbeing interventions. Our review emphasizes the importance of intellectual apparatus when working in diverse communities, effective communication-strategies, and community consultations when designing interventions with Muslim-minority communities.

scholarly journals Fikih Minoritas: Suatu Kajian Teoretis

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurhayati Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Muslim Minorities

Abstract: Fiqh for Minorities: a Theoretical Study. Fiqh for Minorities—which in Arabic is called Fiqh al-Aqaliyyât— is a fiqh model that maintains legal association of sharia and the dimensions of a particular community, namely minority Muslim communities in western countries. Fiqh for Minorities is a product of reinterpretation of the existing arguments on the basis of the benefit whichis the spirit of sharia. The designers of this fiqh are Taha Jabir al-’Alwani in his book, Toward a Fiqh for Minorities: Some Basic Reflection, and Yûsuf al-Qarâdawî in his book, Fî Fiqh al-Aqalliyât al- Muslimah. Fiqh for Minorities originated from the accumulation of the concerns of Muslim minority communities in western countries when it should be doing something related to their religion. This fiqh is designed to provide guidance and a handle on the things that are prohibited and permissible for Muslim minorities living in western countries to carry out their obligations as a Muslim.Keywords: fiqh, minority, shariaAbstrak: Fikih Minoritas: Suatu Kajian Teoretis. Fikih minoritas—yang dalam bahasa Arab disebut dengan Fiqh al- Aqalliyât—merupakan model fikih yang memelihara keterkaitan hukum shar‘î dengan dimensi-dimensi suatu komunitas tertentu, yaitu masyarakat minoritas Muslim di Barat. Fikih minoritas adalah sebuah produk hasil reinterpretasi atas dalil-dalil atas dasar kemaslahatan yang memang menjadi spirit syariah. Penggagas fikih ini adalah Tâhâ Jâbir al- ‘Alwânî dalam bukunya, Toward a Fiqh for Minorities: Some Basic Reflection dan Yûsuf al-Qarâdawî dalam bukunya, Fî Fiqh al-Aqalliyât al-Muslimah. Fikh minoritas lahir berawal dari akumulasi kegelisahan masyarakat minoritas Muslim di Barat ketika harus melakukan sesuatu yang berkaitan dengan keagamaan mereka. Fikih ini didesain untuk memberikan panduan dan pegangan tentang hal-hal yang dilarang dan yang boleh bagi minoritas Muslim yang tinggal di Barat untuk menjalankan kewajiban-kewajiban mereka sebagai seorang Muslim.Kata Kunci: fikih, minoritas, syariahDOI: 10.15408/ajis.v13i2.932

scholarly journals Issues in Human Rights: The Plight of Muslim Minorities and the Lessons Therein for Muslim Majorities

ICR Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
Himatullah Babu Sahib ◽  
Asiah Yaacob
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
Proper Balance

The plight of non-Muslims or other minority communities within a Muslim majority country has been much debated under the broad topic of human rights. Yet problems relating to Muslim minorities in non-Muslim polities have yet to be adequately addressed. More should be done to educate the large Muslim world on the plight of these minority Muslim communities. The lack of focus on the fate of such minorities had resulted in their being subjected to unfair treatment or oppression, painful misery, and unfriendly policies of containment or integration. The authors export other more subtle forms of subjugation more serious than overt oppression and violence. Muslims in adverse minority settings have always struggled to maintain a proper balance between sustaining their religious identity and obligations and maintaining loyalty towards their country. We examine several issues in the light of established human rights principles and identify practical challenges faced in translating these ideals into reality.

The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Laurence
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
European Democracy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Integration Problems ◽  
Muslim Minorities

This book traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, the book challenges the widespread notion that Europe's Muslim minorities represent a threat to liberal democracy. The book documents how European governments in the 1970s and 1980s excluded Islam from domestic institutions, instead inviting foreign powers like Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Turkey to oversee the practice of Islam among immigrants in European host societies. But since the 1990s, amid rising integration problems and fears about terrorism, governments have aggressively stepped up efforts to reach out to their Muslim communities and incorporate them into the institutional, political, and cultural fabrics of European democracy. The book places these efforts—particularly the government-led creation of Islamic councils—within a broader theoretical context and gleans insights from government interactions with groups such as trade unions and Jewish communities at previous critical junctures in European state-building. By examining how state–mosque relations in Europe are linked to the ongoing struggle for religious and political authority in the Muslim-majority world, the book sheds light on the geopolitical implications of a religious minority's transition from outsiders to citizens. This book offers a much-needed reassessment that foresees the continuing integration of Muslims into European civil society and politics in the coming decades.

Comparative Study of Muslim Minorities

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-316
Author(s):  
R. Hrair Dekmejian
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
French Canadians ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
Cultural Regeneration

Most of the world’s Muslims reside in countries where they are numericallypredominant. As such, these Muslims possess a majoritarian outlook in sharpcontrast to the perspective of minority Muslims living in India, China, theUSSR, and some Western countries. In recent years, Muslim minorities havefound themselves at the confluence of diverse social forces and politicaldevelopments which have heightened their sense of communal identity andapprehension vish-vis non-Muslim majorities. This has been particularlytrue of the crisis besetting the Indian Muslims in 1990-91 as well as the newlyformed Muslim communities in Western Europe.The foregoing circumstances have highlighted the need for serious researchon Muslim minorities within a comparative framework. What follows is apreliminary outline of a research framework for a comparative study of Muslimminorities using the Indian Muslims as an illustrative case.The Salience of TraditionOne of the most significant transnational phenomena in the four decadessince mid-century has been the revival of communal consciousness amongminorities in a large number of countries throughout the world. This tendencytoward cultural regeneration has been noted among such diverse ethnic groupsas Afro-Americans, French Canadians, Palestinian Arabs, the Scots of GreatBritain, Soviet minorities, and native Americans. A common tendency amongthese groups is to reach back to their cultural traditions and to explore thoseroots which have served as the historical anchors of their present communalexistence. Significantly, this quest for tradition has had a salutary impactupon the lives of these communities, for it has reinforced their collectiveand individual identities and has enabled them to confront the multipledifficulties of modem life more effectively. By according its members a sense ...

Affective energy, authentic power, transforming communities: toward a phenomenology of collaboration

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrin Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Phenomenological Account

This essay advances the proposition that the quality of the collaborative process can exercise considerable influence on the success and sustainability of community initiatives, especially those addressing community health and wellbeing. The force and direction of this influence, the essay argues, is largely accounted for by stakeholders’ perceptions of their collective power and whether the collaborative process feels authentic. Further, this influence can last for many years, flowing downstream from stakeholders participating in early stages of the collaborative process to those giving and receiving care. The essay offers a phenomenological account of collaboration – as animated by the flow and force of affective energy – to address several critical questions: what motivates collaboration; what sustains group cohesion; what are the features of high-quality collaborative processes; and what makes a collaborative process authentic? The essay concludes with an affective re-specification of authenticity – grounded in vitality, not essence – to explain why some collaboratives are more successful than others.

scholarly journals What is a Cohesive Community Anyway?

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Siobhan Holohan
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Mainstream Culture

The perceived failure of minority communities to integrate into mainstream culture and society has been of such concern in recent years that there have been a series of political endeavors to shore up notions of citizenship, inclusion, and (national) identity, indeed about what it means to be British. This paper considers political discourses about the failure of multiculturalism and the subsequent implementation of community cohesion strategies in relation to David Cameron’s recent treatise on muscular liberalism, in order to reflect upon notions of segregation, identity and cohesion in the United Kingdom. Data from the Muslims in the European Mediascape project is used to consider to what extent dominant hegemonic discourses of Muslim communities permeate media production practices. Based on an analysis of interviews with mainstream media producers in the United Kingdom, the key concern of this paper is to explore whether media production practices can be said to reinforce the current form of hegemonic liberalism.

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