In the contemporary legal and political debate a large space is taken by the concept of
'reasonableness' as a multifaceted notion. Its plasticity makes it very adaptable to the variety …

Philosophical and theological ethics in the Islamic tradition tend to be appraised on the
basis of a unilateral perspective, which circumvents a moral rational approach to intuition …

An investigation into ethics and, more specifically, norm construction within any society
lends itself to navigating complex zones related to epistemology, ontology, psychology …

This article seeks to develop a better understanding of the normative nature of moral
reasoning in Islamic legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh). This theory is built on a foundational …

The authors argue that there is an epistemological crisis of conservative Islamic scholarship
and Muslim mind, rooted in the centuries-old confinement of a role for reason within strict …

This volume collects the published essays of the late Professor Hourani on Islamic ethics in
the earlier classical and formative periods of Islamic civilization. Ethics was from the start at …

This chapter aims to compare several competing perspectives on the Islamic legal
institutions of ijtihad and taqlid. It argues that two of these extremely influential approaches …

We hear more insistently nowadays than we did perhaps in the past that the fusion of politics
and religion in Islam makes the prospect of liberal democracy in the Muslim world rather …

This chapter discusses structural features and lacunae in those sources that were decisive
in helping to create what we know as Islamic ethics. It aims to distinguish between “Islamic” …

This chapter emphasizes an inherent plurality in Islamic ethical discourse. It outlines the
main schools without going into all the subsequent variations that appeared, sometimes …