Ethical Theories in IslamThis work provides a typology of Islamic ethics, without overlooking the chronological development. Four types of ethical theory are isolated: the scriptural, the theological, the philosophical and the religious. This edition contains extra material from Ibn Sina's writings, translated into English. The book should interest Islamic scholars, philosophers and historians of ethics. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE THE KORANIC ETHOS | 11 |
CHAPTER TWO THE EVIDENCE OF THE TRADITIONS of the | 22 |
CHAPTER ONE ETHICAL RATIONALISM | 31 |
THE EARLY DETERMINISTS | 46 |
CHAPTER ONE GREEK Sources of PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS | 61 |
CHAPTER Two SOCRATIC AND STOIC PRELUDES | 67 |
AlFārābī and the Impact of the Nicomachean Ethics | 78 |
CHAPTER FIVE YAHYA IBN ADI D 974 LOGICIAN AND MORAL | 100 |
Happiness its Object and Grades | 119 |
Ethics in Relation to the Other Sciences | 131 |
The Attributes of the Imām and his Duties to his Subjects | 140 |
CHAPTER ONE RELIGIOUS MORALITY and the Ascetic Ideal | 151 |
CHAPTER FOUR NOBLE RELIGIOUS TRAITS MAKĀRIM ALSHA | 176 |
ALGHAZĀLĪ D 1111 | 193 |
Appendix B Excerpt from Ibn Sīnās Risalah filnafs | 216 |
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