Towards New Perspectives on Ethics in Islam [whole issue]

Casuistry, Contingency, and Ambiguity

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  • Feriel Bouhafa (ed.) University of Cambridge

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.9348

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Complete volume, containing all articles

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Introduction: Feriel Bouhafa, Towards New Perspectives on Ethics in Islam: Casuistry, Contingency, and Ambiguity

I. Islamic Philosophy and Theology

Feriel Bouhafa, The Dialectics of Ethics: Moral Ontology and Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy

Frank Griffel, The Place of Virtue Ethics within the Post-Classical Discourse on ḥikma: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Nafs wa-l-rūḥ wa-sharḥ quwāhumā

Ayman Shihadeh, Psychology and Ethical Epistemology: An Ashʿarī Debate with Muʿtazilī Ethical Realism, 11th-12th C.

Hannah C. Erlwein, The Moral Obligation to Worship God Alone: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Analysis in the Tafsīr

Anna Ayse Akasoy, Philosophy in the Narrative Mode: Alexander the Great as an Ethical Character from Roman to Medieval Islamicate Literature

II. Islamic Jurisprudence

Ziad Bou Akl, From Norm Evaluation to Norm Construction: The Metaethical Origin of al-Ghazālī’s Radical Infallibilism

Felicitas Opwis, The Ethical Turn in Legal Analogy: Imbuing the Ratio Legis with Maṣlaḥa

Robert Gleave, Moral Assessments and Legal Categories: The Relationship between Rational Ethics and Revealed Law in Post-Classical Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory

Omar Farahat, Moral Value and Commercial Gain: Three Classical Islamic Approaches

III Hadith, Quran, and Adab

Mutaz al-Khatib, Consult Your Heart: The Self as a Source of Moral Judgment

Tareq Moqbel, “As Time Grows Older, the Qurʾān Grows Younger”: The Ethical Function of Ambiguity in Qurʾānic Narratives

Enass Khansa, Can Reading Animate Justice? A Conversation from Alf Layla wa-Layla (The Thousand and One Nights)

Nuha AlShaar, The Interplay of Religion and Philosophy in al-Tawḥīdī’s Political Thought and Practical Ethics

William Ryle Hodges, Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Notion of Political Adab: Ethics as a Virtue of Modern Citizenship in Late 19th Century Khedival Egypt

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Published

2022-03-03

How to Cite

Bouhafa, F. (2022). Towards New Perspectives on Ethics in Islam [whole issue]: Casuistry, Contingency, and Ambiguity. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 21(2), 1–364. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.9348

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