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Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of Al-Tawhidi and his Contemporaries

Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of Al-Tawhidi and his Contemporaries

Al-Shaar, Nuha

Hardcover

Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

PhilosophyIslamGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415858518
ISBN13: 9780415858519
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 15 2014
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Ethics in Islam provides the first major treatment of al-Tawhīdī's ethics, political thought, and social idealism, investigating the complex influences that shaped this thought and especially his concept of friendship, which is analysed in the unique context of Būyid society. Al-Tawhīdī revives the value of friendship in politics. He introduces it as the best way to reform social and political order and as a means to the good life, to restrain passion and self-interest, to bring about cooperation and promote reason, and for action in opposition to religious zeal. Instead of seeing him as alienated from society, supposedly rejecting traditional Muslim beliefs, this book places him in his historical and intellectual contexts, and shows that while he was original in many ways, his outlook was firmly rooted in the Islamic culture in which he was educated.

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