Exploring Islamic Social Work

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.

• Chapter 1. Islamic Social Work – An Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Maqāṣid-cum-maṣlaḥa Approach as Theological Basis of Islamic Social Work. A Critical Analysis and an Alternative Proposal.- Chapter 3. Islamic Social Ethics, Social Work and the Common Good: Learning from the European Context.- Chapter 4. Social Work through the Prism of the Religious Facts. Islam in Questions.- Chapter 5. Islamic Social Work. A Potential Response to Marginalisation.- Chapter 6. Human Dignity, Common Good and Social Welfare: Towards an Islamic Relational Social Ethics.- Chapter 7. Family Counselling as a Field of Islamic Social Work.- Chapter 8. Helping the Muslims or Contributing to Society? Insight into the Paradoxes of Islamic Social Work through Concrete Cases linked to Social Exclusion.- Chapter 9. The Religious Community. A Space that Facilitates Successful Resettlement for Muslim Offenders.- Chapter 10. Facing Radicalisation: Islamic Counter-Speech and Social Work.- Chapter 11. Social Work andCounter-Radicalisation. A Critical Reflection.- Chapter 12. Islamic Practical Theology: A Socio-ethical and Interdisciplinary Approach.- Chapter 13. “Epistemic Weight” of Praxis in the Production and Teaching of New Knowledge in Islamic Practical Theology.