Islam and Morality: A Philosophical Introduction
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Islam and Morality considers how Islam, the Qur'an and other Islamic texts have approached the ethics of a variety of contemporary and historical issues.
Throughout the book, Oliver Leaman provides a varied, balanced, and thought-provoking account of how Islamic philosophers and texts have considered the ethics of aesthetics, violence, conflict, gender, sexuality, medical ethics, wealth, poverty, the environment and legal ethics. Working through these subjects, Leaman considers the work of a range of Islamic thinkers, including Al-Tabari, Ali Shariat, Hasn Hanafi, Ibn Tufayl, Ibn Rushd, Ibn al-'Arabi, al-Ghazali, and Amina Wadud, while also taking into consideration the different branches of Islam and Islamic theology, including the Mu'tazilites and the Ash'arites, as well as Sufi, Sunni, and Shi'a. In addition to the above, the book also considers how Islam responds to other Abrahamic religions, how it understands the concept of free will, and how it sees the relationship between good and evil.
Aimed at upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in Islamic Studies and ethics, Islam and Morality represents one of the first books to provide a sustained reading of the importance of ethics within Islam. The author, Oliver Leaman, has written extensively on the topic of Islamic philosophy.
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