Islamic Political Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Political Ethics write by Sohail H. Hashmi. This book was released on 2009-01-10. Islamic Political Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most dynamic aspects of the Islamic revival during the past two centuries has been the rethinking of Islamic political thought. A broad range of actors, ideas, and ideologies characterize the debate on how Islamic ethics and law should be manifested in modern institutions. Yet this aspect of the "return to Islam" has been neglected by policymakers, the media, and even many scholars, who equate "political Islam" with merely one strand, labeled "Islamic fundamentalism." Bringing together ten essays from six volumes of the Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics, this book gives a rounded treatment to the subject of Islamic political ethics. The authors explore the Islamic ethics of civil society, boundaries, pluralism, and war and peace. They consider questions of diversity, discussing, among other subjects, Islamic regimes' policies regarding women and religious minorities. The chapters on war and peace take up such crucial and timely issues as the Islamic ethics of jihad, examining both the legitimate conditions for the declaration of war and the proper conduct of war. In their discussions, the contributors analyze the works of classical writers as well as the full range of modern reinterpretations. But beyond these analyses of previous and contemporary thinkers, the essays also reach back to the two fundamental sources of Islamic ethics--the Qur'an and traditions of the Prophet--to develop fresh insights into how Islam and Muslims can contribute to human society in the twenty-first century. The authors are Dale F. Eickelman, Hasan Hanafi, Sohail H. Hashmi, Farhad Kazemi, John Kelsay, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Sulayman Nyang, Bassam Tibi, and M. Raquibuz Zaman. From the foreword by Jack Miles: "Western foreign ministers and secretaries of state may have to learn a little theology if the looming clash between embattled elements both in the West and in the Muslim umma is to yield to disengagement and peaceful coexistence, to say nothing of fruitful collaboration. . . . It is, then, no idle academic exercise that the thinkers whose work is collected here have in hand. The long-term practical importance of their work can scarcely be overstated."
Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics
Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics write by Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati. This book was released on 2019-11-20. Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and teaching on Islamic and comparative peace studies, this book offers a friendship-related academic framework that examines shared moral concepts, philosophical paradigms, and political experiences that can develop and expand multidisciplinary conversations between the Christian West and the Muslim East. By advancing multicultural and interreligious discourses on friendship, this book helps promote actual friendships among diverse cultures and peoples. This is not a monologue. It provides a model of conversations among scholars and political actors who come from diverse international and interreligious backgrounds. The word “Islamic” should not mislead the reader to suspect that this edited volume delves only into religious discourses. Rather, it provides a forum for conversations within and between religious and philosophical perspectives. It sparks friendship conversations thematically and through disciplinary and cultural diversity. The result of the work of many prominent international scholars and diplomats over many years, it conveys at least one message clearly: friendship matters for not only our happiness but also for our survival.
Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges
Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges write by Mohammed Hashas. This book was released on 2021-03-12. Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts? How have sacred and prophetic texts been interpreted throughout major Islamic intellectual history by the Sunnis and Shi‘a? How does contemporary Islamic thought treat religious and political diversity in modern nation states and in societies in transition? How is pluralism dealt with in modern major and minor Islamic contexts? How does modern political Islam deal with pluralism in the public sphere? And what are the major internal and external challenges to pluralism in Islamic contexts? These questions that have become of paramount relevance in religious studies especially during the last three-four decades are answered as critically highlighted in Islamic founding sources, the formative classical sources and how it has been lived and practiced in past and present Islamic majority societies and communities around the world. Case studies cover Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, and Thailand, besides various internal references to other contexts.
Social Ethics of Islam
Social Ethics of Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Ethics of Islam write by Abdul Malik Ahmed Al-Sayed. This book was released on 1982. Social Ethics of Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Islamic Political Ethics in Advice Literature
Islamic Political Ethics in Advice Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Political Ethics in Advice Literature write by Fiqih Risallah. This book was released on 2011. Islamic Political Ethics in Advice Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This present study is designed to focus on Islamic political ethics in advice literature and takes Kitāb al-SulÏān of Ibn Qutayabah's Uyūn al-Akhbār as the object of the study. It aims to expound the ethical principles in it and outline it on the basis of political practices. In fact, some scholars of Islamic political thought, both Muslims and non-Muslims alike, less appreciate this work, along with its similar types. Having the elements of Mirrors for Princes Genre notwithstanding, Kitāb al-Sultan of Uyūn al-Akhbār was not classified by some as a Mirror work. Yet, for others, they objectively see it as such and further argue that, with other similar works, it has its own merit in forming the theory of Islamic polity in general. For this, the discussion in the first chapter traces the genre of Mirrors for Princes and its development in Islamic advice literature, so as to clarify the Uyūn al-Akhbār's genre; with Ibn Qutaybah's life and works briefly presented. The second chapter is the core study expounding all the ethical qualities found in Kitāb al-SulÏān, under three spectrums of discussion. Qualities within the spectrum on the practice of political authority are presented in fourteen topics, related to governmental and administrative circles. There are three dispositions pointed out within the second spectrum that Ibn Qutaybah tried to remind us in his book, which accordingly can abuse the political power such as following passion, oppression, and disloyalty. To overcome all of these, within the third spectrum on principles of political actions, Ibn Qutaybah puts an emphasis on uplifting the religious values such as justice, enjoining good and forbidding evil, trustworthy, moderation, and responsibility for those who engage in practical conduct of governance, the ruler and the ruled, in order to obtain success in managing public affairs. In chapter three, the discussion is on Ibn Qutaybah's contribution to Islamic political thought. It analyzes his method of assimilating the values of the great traditions, which are of course in conformity with Islamic teaching, as indicated in Kitāb al-SulÏān. What he meant was an adjustment of the wisdom prevalent in the Persian and other lore into Muslim understanding. Still, in this chapter, the study then makes reflections of his ethical qualities on the contemporary significance, which are relevant to today's politics. In this respect, his mirror work, Kitāb al-SulÏān, is also a kind of refinement and remedy for contemporary political paucity. This study subsequently arrives at the conclusion that, according to Ibn Qutaybah, religiosity with its ethical values is of the utmost importance in an Islamic polity, for it will therefore lead with God's grace to success here on earth as well as in the hereafter.
