A Companion to Muslim Ethics

by Amyn Sajoo

Publisher:

I.B. Tauris

, 2012

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies

Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living. In keeping with this dictum, taking ethics seriously means engaging with the real world where the human sense of right and wrong is daily tested. At their best, all faith traditions are challenged by such testing; and if faith-inspired ethics are thought to goven the whole of life, their guiding values need constantly to be interpreted by the believer to achieve a practical result. In the Muslim tradition, this is what the Qur'an really amounts to: a call to strive for belief with a social conscience. For fourteen centuries Muslim scholars have grappled with the implications of that call in matters of law, social practice and theology. And in our own time, the quests for civil society and the rule of law have much to do with the response given to these ethical questions. 'A Companion to Muslim Ethics' explores Islam's core conception of the good, shared with other great traditions. Leading experts examine issues such as gender equality, nonviolence, dispute resolution, the environment, health and finance.
The volume will appeal to all those interested in how reason, faith and circumstance shape difficult moral choices in an increasingly globalised world.

Contents

Contributors

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Roots and Branches
Amyn B. Sajoo

2. Early Thought
Charles Butterworth

3. Literature
Eric Ormsby

4. Ecology
Seyyed Hossein Nasr

5. Art
Fahmida Suleman

6. Gender
Zayn Kassam

7. Healthcare
Abdallah Daar

8. Economy
Rodney J. Wilson

9. Dispute Resolution
Mohamed Keshavjee

10. Tolerance
Reza Shah-Kazemi

11. Nonviolence
Ramin Jahanbegloo

Index

Product Details

• Title: A Companion to Muslim Ethics
• Author: Amyn Sajoo
• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780857735201, 0857735209
• Resource ID: LLS:9780857735201
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-11T02:57:46Z

About the Author

Amyn B. Sajoo is a resident scholar at Simon Fraser University's Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures in Canada. He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge and McGill universities as well as The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Dr. Sajoo's publications include A Companion to the Muslim World (2009), Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination (2008), Muslim Ethics: Emerging Vistas (2004), Civil Society in the Muslim World (2002) and Pluralism in Old Societies and New States (1994). He is a frequent contributor to the news media on both sides of the Atlantic.