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Article: Alcohol and Islam: an overview
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- Contemporary Drug Problems
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Federal Legal Publications, Inc. Winter 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Alcohol and Islam is a relatively understudied topic, although alcohol abuse is a significant social problem both in Muslim majority countries and among Muslim minorities. Questions of religious identity as they relate to food and drink prescriptions and proscriptions also make alcohol and Islam
a worthwhile topic. This article offers a general overview of alcohol and Islam. It briefly introduces alcohol and Islam in history; examines the main Islamic religious sources (the Quran, the sayings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad, and Islamic law); analyzes World Health Organization statistics on contemporary patterns of abstention and alcohol consumption in Muslim majority countries; ...