An Islamic Theology of Compassion in Relation to Liberation Theology: A Critical Assessment of Positive Muslims' Approach to HIV and AIDS
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Kamalie, Masnoenah
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Esack, Farid
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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University of Johannesburg (South Africa)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2019
GENERAL NOTES
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125 p.
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Body granting the degree
University of Johannesburg (South Africa)
Text preceding or following the note
2019
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Positive Muslims, a faith-based NGO focused on the care and advocacy of HIV and AIDS within the South African Muslim community was first established in Cape Town in the year 2000 during the height of a period referred to as state-sponsored AIDS denialism. The trajectory of the establishment, its response and approach to HIV & AIDS support in the South African Muslim community with its underlying Islamic theology impulses, and its subsequent closure in 2011 - is the main focus of this research thesis. Locating the emergence of Positive Muslims as a particularized faith-inspired, socially motivated response to a global pandemic within a context of hyper-misinformation, uncertainty, state-sponsored denialism, I explore how contemporary Muslims draw from, interpret and develop their own understandings and nuanced praxis of liberatory theologies, as one response to the HIV & AIDS pandemic within the South African context. Contextualizing the emergence of Positive Muslims and their Theology of Compassion as an adjectivized responsive theology anchored in Liberation Theology specifically and Muslim responses to HIV & AIDS generally, this thesis maps out some of the prevailing attitudes, anxieties and responses within the broader global landscape of HIV & AIDS research.