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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice > General
Al-Minhaj Al-Sawi is a milestone work, the first work of its kind
for many centuries. It is a compendium of Prophetic Hadiths,
categorised under a number of headings and compiled with clear
relevance to the lives and situation of Muslims in the modern age.
The work is authenticated by a rigorous and detailed process of
Takhreej - referencing each hadith to its sources - from a study of
over 300 authentic works of hadith. This work will be useful for
academics in many relevant fields, whether researching the basis of
orthodox Sunni belief and practice, or examining the contemporary
Muslim response to religious extremism. It is split into 2 volumes:
Prophetic Virtues and Miracles and Righteous Character and Social
Interactions. The first part Prophetic Virtues and Miracles will
prove invaluable to readers who wish to understand, in the light of
the most authenticated and sourced classical Islamic materials, the
responsibilities of Muslims in modern age, and the rights of
others, and will provide clarity in relation to the Prophet
Muhammad's virtues and life, his methods of worship and spiritual
practice and other aspects of his Sunnah.
In The Peaceable Kingdom Stanley Hauerwas claims that "to begin by
asking what is the relation between theology and ethics is to have
already made a mistake." Hauerwas's claim, and his contribution
toward a socially constituted and historically embodied account of
the moral life and moral reason, are often charged with
sectarianism, relativism, and tribalism. Emmanuel Katongole defends
Hauerwas's dismissal of the traditional philosophical "problem" of
the relation between ethics and religion. It is, he argues, part of
Hauerwas's wider attempt to set aside the dominant Kantian moral
tradition. Standard fare in moral philosophy, inspired by that
tradition, fosters a highly formal, ahistorical view of ethics that
does not do justice to our experience of ourselves as moral agents.
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