Ethical Theories in Islam

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BRILL, Jan 1, 1991 - Religion - 230 pages
This 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
Bibliography
233

CHIEF MORAL PHILOSOPHER OF ISLAM
107
Justice
113

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