ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the juristic sources in a search for viewpoints and attitudes towards treating disabilities. These sources made reference to two main methods. The first method, termed in juristic sources ‘physical medicine’, is based on using medicines and drugs known to medical science at the present time. The second method, called ‘spiritual medicine’, makes use of specific religious formulas including texts from the Qur’ān, words attributed to the Prophet of Islam, etc. This chapter gave a detailed overview of these two methods in Islamic jurisprudence, the attitudes of Muslim jurists towards these two methods, and finally ‘treatments’ developed within each method to prevent the occurrence of disability or to cure it.
