Forging Ideal Muslim Subjects
Discursive Practices, Subject Formation, & Muslim Ethics
Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2014-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2014-9 (ISBN)
This book describes and analyzes Muhasibi's and Nursi's accounts of what it means to live an authentically Muslim ethical life. It documents and examines the discursive practice, reflectivity, dynamism and complexity involved in living properly as a Muslim individual and social being.
What forms can a religiously informed, ethical Muslim life take? This book presents two important accounts of ideal Muslim subjectivity, one by 9th century moral pedagogue, al-Harith al-Muhasibi (d. 857) and the other by 20th century Kurdish Quran scholar, Said Nursi (d. 1960). It reconstructs Muhasibi’s and Nursi’s accounts of ideal Muslim consciousness and analyzes the discursive practices implicated in its formation and expression. The book discusses the range of psychic states and ethical relations that Muhasibi and Nursi consider critical for living an authentically Muslim life. It highlights the importance of discursive practices in Muslim religious and moral self-production. The author draws on Foucault's insights about ethics and practices of self-care to examine familiar Muslim discourses in ways that enrich contemporary conversations about identity, individuality, community, authority, moral agency and virtue in the fields of religious studies, Islamic studies and Muslim ethics. The book deepens our understanding of the fluidity and fragility of both the more familiar, obligation-centered ethics in Islamic thought and the less familiar, belief-centered modes of religio-moral being.
What forms can a religiously informed, ethical Muslim life take? This book presents two important accounts of ideal Muslim subjectivity, one by 9th century moral pedagogue, al-Harith al-Muhasibi (d. 857) and the other by 20th century Kurdish Quran scholar, Said Nursi (d. 1960). It reconstructs Muhasibi’s and Nursi’s accounts of ideal Muslim consciousness and analyzes the discursive practices implicated in its formation and expression. The book discusses the range of psychic states and ethical relations that Muhasibi and Nursi consider critical for living an authentically Muslim life. It highlights the importance of discursive practices in Muslim religious and moral self-production. The author draws on Foucault's insights about ethics and practices of self-care to examine familiar Muslim discourses in ways that enrich contemporary conversations about identity, individuality, community, authority, moral agency and virtue in the fields of religious studies, Islamic studies and Muslim ethics. The book deepens our understanding of the fluidity and fragility of both the more familiar, obligation-centered ethics in Islamic thought and the less familiar, belief-centered modes of religio-moral being.
Faraz Masood Sheikh is assistant professor of religious ethics in the Department of Religious Studies at William & Mary.
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction
Narrating Ideal Muslim Subjectivities in a Foucauldian Register
Chapter One
Muhasibian Religious Subjectivity & the Travails of Sincerity
Chapter Two
Living with Vulnerabilities: Muhasibian Moral Subjectivity and Self-Care
Chapter Three
Belief Perspectives & the Nursian Religious Subject
Chapter Four
Nursian Believer as Moral Subject
Conclusion
Forging Ideal Subjectivities Everyday & Over a Lifetime
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.05.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Lexington Studies in Islamic Thought |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 219 mm |
| Gewicht | 308 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-2014-8 / 1793620148 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-2014-9 / 9781793620149 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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