ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter, a number of points will be emphasized, some of which represent the core of this study and others of which open up new fields of research.
In the first place, I should clarify a specific point about the main protagonists of this study, namely the Muslim scholars. I did my best to find a balance between early and modern Muslim scholars when discussing ideas about people with disabilities and their rights in the Islamic tradition. However, the reader should have noticed that the early Muslim scholars were more prominent in some parts of this study than the modern ones. To my mind, this is because the relevant discus - sions of early scholars were much richer and more original than those of the modern scholars. A considerable number of modern scholars either rehearsed what their early predecessors had said or tried to give an Islamic slant to the human rights of people with disabilities as proclaimed by the United Nations, but adding hardly anything new. This does not negate the importance of the modern scholars’ contributions as shown in different parts of this study, especially Chapter 7 on medical treatment for people with disabilities.
