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May 31, 2023 · This entry focuses on the historical sources and formative moments in the development of Islamic theology and philosophy of religion. While most of the thinkers and ideas are from the classical period of Islam (ca. 800–1300) in a few cases we have extended our survey to the seventeenth century to include influential post-classical thinkers, like Mulla Ṣadrā.
Islam should see Islamic law as Islamic ethics. 11. My own essay takes up the Risala of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 820 c.e.) as an example of divine command ethics in early Islam.1 As indicated, ShafiTs treatise constitutes an early presentation of the systematic theory of the "roots of jurisprudence" (usul al-fiqh).
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- Abstract
- Introduction
- The Structure of Ethical Notions
- Law and Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and the Sources
- Legal Tools and Ethics
- Fiqh and Sharî’a
- Applied Ethics
- Conclusion
When discussing “Islamic ethics” it is imperative to begin by defining and describing both the terminology and the sources of ethics (al-akhla ̄q). The structure of the ethical notions in the Islamic context needs to be understood from within as well as through the evolution of what is com-monly called “the Islamic sciences.” This definition and id...
The primary concern of ethics is to determine what is “good” and what is “bad.” From this modest starting point, specialists in the discipline have developed a multi-faceted approach to the process of distinguishing “right” from “wrong.” Systems have been established to define what can be considered as “licit” and “illicit,” and will be discussed b...
In Islamic ethics, the prophetic tradition is of highest importance, for it indicates how the Qur’an should be read and understood. We find innumer-able virtues and ethical values formulated in the Qur’an and addressed in a like number of prophetic traditions, which are directly linked to the belief in One God (tawh ·ı ̄d). This belief extends to t...
As this chapter is an introduction to Islamic ethics in the light of bioethics, it is the field of jurisprudence that is the most related to bioethics (even though the two others contribute significantly in philosophical and spiritual terms). A close reading of the Qur’an and the Prophetic traditions (sunna), reveals a substantial number of ethical...
At the very heart of the process of drafting Islamic law, it is important to identify general principles based on practical rationality and attention to the meanings and ethical objectives of the law. Certainly, legal rulings enjoyed predominance, and their moral implications, were neither entirely absent nor neglected. Seen in this light, the five...
Alongside the evolution in thought that restricted the meaning of certain key notions, such as Sunna to ah ·a ̄dı ̄th in their legal dimensions — or fiqh — to law and ethics — the very notion of Shari’a experienced a con-traction and a narrowed interpretation. Beginning with the exercise of fiqh and its focus on laws and rules, Shari’a came to be d...
Islam, like all other religions, grappled with the emergent scientific and technological issues as well as the progress and evolution of sciences. Islamic jurists have essentially, taken this task upon themselves. Over time, they have promulgated legal rulings and judicial opinions (fata ̄wa ̄) on objects, actions, and situations that cannot be res...
Applied Islamic ethics, as developed almost exclusively by legal scholars in all scientific disciplines, suffers from these four problems: the language barrier; overlooking the relationship between medicine, economy, and social justice; dominance of the legal approach to applied ethics; as well as the Islamic world’s relations with the West. The ch...
Aug 18, 2022 · Subject. Islam. Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online. The present study on Islamic ethics comes at almost the end of my career in academia. Since my days of undergraduate studies in India, Iran, and Iraq, the question of the relation between religion and ethics—revelation and reason—has been on my list of “things to do.”.
Aug 18, 2022 · Islamic Ethics introduces the centrality of ethics as the most critical subject in directing the religious-social practice of the Muslim community. It introduces the field of ethics by reinvestigating the Islamic juridical heritage in the classical sources and their application in the contemporary Muslim societies.
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Jan 1, 2015 · The Value of Man. Islam differs from many other religions in providing a complete code of life. It encompasses the secular with the spiritual, the mundane with the celestial. Man is the vicegerent of God on earth “Behold thy Lord said to the Angels: I will create a vicegerent (khalifa) on earth” (Q. 2:30).
Dec 6, 2017 · This chapter describes Islamic virtue ethics through the exemplary figure, Abu ‘Ali Ahmad ibn Muhammad Miskawayh (932–1030) and his influential work, The Refinement of Character ( Tahdhid al-akhlaq ). Miskawayh’s understanding of virtue is an example of cultural assimilation, especially of Greek philosophy, Islamic theology, and Sufism.
