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

In this chapter I explore the relationship between religion and morality. Mindful that the idea
of the shari 'a is essential to Muslim tradition, and that this tradition is a guiding factor in …

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 …

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 …

Does Islamic law define Islamic ethics? Or is the law a branch of a broader ethical system?
Or is it but one of several independent moral discourses, Islamic and otherwise, competing …

I propose a framework for comparative Islamic—Western ethics in which the Islamic
categories Islam, Iman, and Ihsan are juxtaposed with the concepts of obligation, value, and …

There have been two main traditions of writing on ethics in the Islamic tradition, one
philosophical and related to the works of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers …

Without ethics, no religious system could ever claim of its universality. Spiritualness alone
cannot guarantee a wholesomeness of religiosity, nor ethics in itself. Yet in the popular …

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 …