The Rights of the Elderly in the Arab Middle East: Islamic Theory versus Arabic Practice
![handle is hein.journals/marqelad14 and id is 5 raw text is: THE RIGHTS OF THE ELDERLY IN THE ARAB
MIDDLE EAST: ISLAMIC THEORY VERSUS ARABIC
PRACTICE
Radwa S. Elsaman* & Mohamed A. 'Arafa**
If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah
will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.'
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.2
* Commercial Law Assistant Professor, Cairo University Law
School; Associate with Ibrachy-Dermarkar Law Firm, Cairo; S.J.D.
Candidate 09, LL.M. 08, The American University Washington College
of Law, Washington DC; LL.M. 05, The International Maritime
Organization International Maritime Law Institute, Malta;
Postgraduate Diploma in Civil Law 03, B.A. 02, Cairo University Law
School.
** Adjunct Professor of Islamic Law at Indiana University Robert
H. McKinney School of Law; Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and
Criminal Justice Systems at the Alexandria University Faculty of Law
(Alexandria, Egypt). S.J.D., Indiana University Robert H. McKinney
School of Law (2013); LL.M., University of Connecticut School of Law
(2008); LL.B., Alexandria University School of Law (2006). Likewise,
Professor 'Arafa is a Visiting Professor of Business Law at the Arab
Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (College
of Business Management). Moreover, Professor 'Arafa served as an
Associate Trainee Attorney and Executive Attorney Assistant at 'Arafa
Law Firm (2007). Of course, all errors remain the author. For any
comments or questions, please contact the author at marafa@iupui.edu
or arafadrmohamed@yahoo.com. Lastly, many thanks to my
research assistant and editor, Heather D. Willick.
1. Quote of The Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) (PBUH). Sunan
Abu-Dawud, Hadith No. 3643.
2. IBN KHALDOUN, AL-MUQADDIMA [THE INTRODUCTION, OR
PROLEGOMENON] (1377). Ibn Khaldoun was a lawyer, sociologist, economist, and
Muslim jurist. He wrote his masterpiece, MUQADDIMAH, or Prolegomenon, in
1377 A.D. For an English translation, see IBN KHALDOUN, THE MUQADDIMA: AN
INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY (Franz Rosenthal trans., Princeton Univ. Press 1958).
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