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Islamic Ethics - Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct (Hardcover)
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Islamic Ethics - Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct (Hardcover)
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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.
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