The State’s Right to Deny Contagious Individuals Entry (The State of Qatar: A Case Study)

الملخص

Contagion is a highly disputed topic in Islamic studies, and has been investigated by Muslim scholars from the perspective of both Islamic law and theology. In this paper, I analyze the Islamic outlook on contagion from a theological perspective by examining the Prophetic Hadiths on the subject. The study then focuses on practical implementations of this outlook in respect to how Muslims should handle those with dangerous illnesses in a personal and social capacity. Finally, the paper examines the moral stance that Islamic law takes on the deportation of contagious immigrants, and attempts to ground the Qatari deportation procedure in such arguments.