JARMILA ŠTUKOVá
DOGS ARE (NOT) HARAM

Majority of Muslims see dogs as dirty animals. But it wasn't always like that. Based on historical sources dogs helped their owners to protect animals like sheep or goats - Muslims dad so many of them. They also helped preventing herds from running away or guarded them from predators. They also played a very important role during hunting expeditions. Many of the world's largest cities in the millennium between 700 - 1700 belonged to Muslims. They were very helpful in that time, because in addition to protecting property they also ate garbage on the streets. From Damascus and Baghdad to Cairo and Istanbul, dogs were supported as consumers of waste to keep city streets clean. Situation began to changed approximately 200 years ago. Many diseases were associated with a large amount of waste and poor hygiene. And those who ate the garbage, the dogs, also rode with it. It did not last long and at the beginning of the nineteenth century in general, people began to look at dogs as dirty animal

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