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Ethics in Islam - Friendship in the Political Thought of Al-Tawhidi and his Contemporaries (Hardcover)
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Ethics in Islam - Friendship in the Political Thought of Al-Tawhidi and his Contemporaries (Hardcover)
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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Offering a new reading of Islamic ethical and political thought in
the Buyid period (334-440/946-1048), this book focuses particularly
on the philosopher Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi who lived in Baghdad and
what is now western Iran. Ethics in Islam provides the first major
treatment of al-Tawhidi's ethics, political thought, and social
idealism, investigating the complex influences that shaped this
thought and especially his concept of friendship, which is analysed
in the unique context of Buyid society. Al-Tawhidi revives the
value of friendship in politics. He introduces it as the best way
to reform social and political order and as a means to the good
life, to restrain passion and self-interest, to bring about
cooperation and promote reason, and for action in opposition to
religious zeal. Instead of seeing him as alienated from society,
supposedly rejecting traditional Muslim beliefs, this book places
him in his historical and intellectual contexts, and shows that
while he was original in many ways, his outlook was firmly rooted
in the Islamic culture in which he was educated. Contributing to
modern discussions of Islam and political ethics, this book is of
interest to scholars and researchers of political philosophy,
comparative ethical thought and Islamic studies.
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