Islamic Ethics

Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct

Abdulaziz Sachedina (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-758181-0 (ISBN)

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There have been two main traditions of writing on ethics in the Islamic tradition, one philosophical and related to the works of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers, represented by thinkers such as Avicenna, and one theological, represented by such figures as the famous theologian al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar. Some later scholars attempted to combine those two traditions. For the most part, however, the views of the jurists have been ignored. Abdulaziz Sachedina here calls attention to this third tradition of ethics, which has its home in legal literature. The problem is that Islamic jurists did not produce a genre of ethical manuals, and their form of ethics, which Sachedina terms juridical ethics, must be derived or extracted from works that ostensibly treat legal rulings and obligations, or scriptural hermeneutics and legal theory. Presenting an outline of the version of Islamic ethics that is embedded in the textual legacy of the Islamic legal tradition, he argues that this juridical ethics is an important, even dominant form of ethics in modern Islam. He notes that this form of ethics has been challenged by modernity and examines the variety of ways in which legal ethical thinkers have reacted. How do Muslim religious leaders come to grips with modern demands of directing their communities to live as modern citizens of nation-states? What kind of moral and spiritual resources are being garnered by their scholars to respond to the new issues in sciences, more immediately in medicine, and constantly changing social relationships? To answer these pressing questions, it is necessary to go beyond the philosophical ethics of virtue and human character and acknowledge the importance of ethics to the formulation in Muslim interpretive jurisprudence of religious and moral decisions that are based on reason and revelation.

Abdulaziz Sachedina is Professor and Endowed IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He has been conducting research and writing in the field of Islamic Law, Ethics, and Theology (Sunni and Shiite) for more than four decades. In the last twenty years he has concentrated on social and political ethics, including Interfaith and Intrafaith Relations, Islamic Biomedical Ethics and Islam and Human Rights. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (OUP, 2009).

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2: IN SEARCH OF A COMPREHENSIVE DEFINITION OF ETHICS

CHAPTER 3: GENESIS OF MORAL REASONING IN RELIGIOUS ETHICS

CHAPTER 4: SCRIPTURAL SOURCES OF ETHICAL METHODOLOGY

CHAPTER 5: NATURAL LAW AND ETHICAL NECESSITY

CHAPTER 6: ETHICS OF INTERPRETIVE JURISPRUDENCE

EPILOGUE

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Erscheinungsdatum	27.06.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	238 x 164 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	0-19-758181-1 / 0197581811
ISBN-13	978-0-19-758181-0 / 9780197581810
Zustand	Neuware