This article looks at some of the salient analyses of the concept of wasaṭīyah (moderation)
in the ancient Greek and the Islamic traditions and uses them to develop a contemporary …

Recent interest in virtue ethics has led to increased interdisciplinary and interreligious lines
of inquiry, moving away from a focus on Aristotelian approaches to less-studied, often non …

The goal of this essay is to set forth the ethical teaching of al-Fārābī and of Ibn Sina.
However, because their writings and their philosophy are not well-known to us, it seems …

From the origins of Islamic history, humility (khushūʿ/tawāḍuʿ) has occupied a central
place in Muslim piety. This has been in large part due to its defining role in the Qurʾān and …

Islam, like other religions, looks back to an early sacred time, in which its primary scripture,
the Qurʾan, was given to the Prophet Muhammad who directly instructed the people in …

Honesty in Islamic mystical ethics, at a superficial level, refers to the correspondence
between speech, action, and intention and purpose. This application of honesty has been …

This dissertation examines the concepts of virtue and piety in a sixteenth century Islamic
manual of ethics and advice. The work in question is Birgivi Mehmed Efendi's (d. 981/1573) …

The current research was based on a comparative study of the views of two prominent
Islamic intellectual figures, namely Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas and Taha …

The number of voices which call for reforms in different areas of modern Islamic thought is
massive. Reforms are deemed as necessary in order to create anIslamicthinkingandunderstandingthatfitst …

Since the early epochs of the Muslim history, the study of ethics, a field that is traditionally
known among Muslim scholars as tahdhib al-akhlaq (character purification), has been an …