The ‘Right of Thirst’ for Animals in Islamic Law: A Comparative Approach

Wescoat, JR James L.

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“…It took the field a few decades since Bousquet's work to witness the appearance of new contributions. Of these, James Wescoat's article "The 'Right of Thirst' for Animals in Islamic Law: A Comparative Approach" (Wescoat 1995) not only sheds light on a little-studied point (h . aqq al-shurb, i.e., the right of access to water, otherwise known as "the right of thirst"), but unlike Bousquet's article, it pays closer attention to the topic's empirical dimension.…”

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Animal Ethics in Islam: A Review Article

Tlili

2018

Religions

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This article offers an assessment of the current state of scholarship on animal ethics in Islam. It first discusses a group of texts that share the preoccupation of demonstrating the superiority of Islam’s animal teachings, thus exhibiting a clearly apologetic tone. Then it turns to the debate on animal ethics in Western academia. By raising challenging questions, the latter holds the promise of delving deeper into the subject, but at its current stage much of it is still hampered by factual inaccuracies and methodological flaws. In conclusion, the article explains why the subject of animal ethics in Islam is particularly deserving of careful study.

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Animal Ethics in Islam: A Review Article

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2018

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“…The uses and abuses of history will thus be addressed through increasingly sophisticated use of analogies, in which one consciously design options that broaden the range of choice (Meyer et al 1998). These analogical methods have been employed in global climate change research, and they are now expanding the scope of water rights from human use to human rights and animal rights (Moench et al 2001‐03, Wescoat 1995). It remains to be seen whether such analogies might extend to plants, ecosystems, and water bodies in different parts of the world.…”

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Comparative International Water Research

Wescoat

2009

Contemporary Water Research

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“…As one referee of this manuscript kindly reminded me, animal geographers do often refer to alternative animal ethics as a means of explaining their own positionality (e.g., animal rights, ecofeminism). In addition, their discussion of intrasocial and interspecies oppressions, social/animal geographies of inclusion and exclusion, and transspecies social and urban theory, bespeaks a vision of a more nurturing and egalitarian relationship with animals (see especially Emel 1995 ;Philo 1995;Wescoat 1995;Wolch, West, and Gaines 1995). Still, the justification for this laudable vision is absent.…”

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Contested Moralities: Animals and Moral Value in the Dear/Symanski Debate

Lynn

1998

Ethics, Place & Environment

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Geography is experiencing a 'moral turn' in its research interests and practices. There is also a flourishing interest in animal geographies that intersects this turn, and is concurrent with wider scholarly efforts to reincorporate animals and nature into our ethical and social theories. This article intervenes in a dispute between Michael Dear and Richard Symanski. The dispute is over the culling of wild horses in Australia, and I intervene to explore how geography deepens our moral understanding of the animal/human dialectic. I begin by situating the inquiry into ethics and animals in geography. Next, I provide a synopsis of Dear and Symanski's comments on 'animal rights', followed in turn by discussions of moral value and value paradigms. I then introduce a value paradigm termed geocentrism as a geographical account of our moral relations to animals. Finally, I discuss the wider significance of this debate for geographical ethics, moral philosophy and social theory. The world, we are told, was made especially for man-a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves. They have precise dogmatic insight of the intentions of the Creator.... Now, it never seems to occur to these far-seeking teachers that Nature's object in making animals and plants might possibly be first of all the happiness of each one of them, not the creation of all for the happiness of one. Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? John Muir (1916) Anthropocentrism and predation, in A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. In 1994 the Annals of the AAG featured a heated exchange between Michael Dear and Richard Symanski on the topic of postmodernism. Using a dispute over the culling of wild horses in Australia, Symanski sought to illustrate the baneful effect of postmodern relativism on truth, and this illustration became a flash-point in the subsequent exchange with Dear (Dear 1994; Symanski 1994, 1994). i In the minds of many of my colleagues, the exchange produced more heat than light, and they found the discussion perplexing and pointless. While some were simply unfamiliar with the theoretical terrain of postmodernism, others did not see what postmodern contentions about truth had to do with the ecology of Australian wild horses. In effect they were asking: "What in the world could ecology and postmodernism possibly have to do with one another?" In point of fact, a

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The ‘Right of Thirst’ for Animals in Islamic Law: A Comparative Approach

Cited by 42 publications

References 25 publications

Animal Ethics in Islam: A Review Article

Animal Ethics in Islam: A Review Article

Comparative International Water Research

Contested Moralities: Animals and Moral Value in the Dear/Symanski Debate

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