This essay highlights how contemporary Muslim fundamentalists reduce Islam's rich and
complex intellectual legacy to a set of authoritarian rules. The three branches of classical …

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 …

This article traces the emergence of ethical thinking (al-tafkīr al-akhlāqī) in Egypt since the
late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century and seeks to identify the …

This article surveys four approaches towards moral obligation to non-Muslims found in
Islamic legal thought. I refer to the first three approaches as the" revelatory-deontological," …

Among the many debates conducted in classical Islamic theology (kalām), the one
concerned with questions of moral ontology and moral epistemology can be counted among …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relations between various forms of moral realism
and some views about religious ethics, particularly, religious ethics in the Islamic tradition …

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 …

This essay discusses an important feature of much modern Islamic writing on law, politics
and morality. The feature in question is the claim that Islamic law and human nature (fiṭra) …

What forms can a religiously informed, ethical Muslim life take? This book presents two
important accounts of ideal Muslim subjectivity, one by 9th century moral pedagogue, al …

Recent political and social events as well as advances in science and technology have
posed challenges to the traditional Muslim discourse on ethics. In this book, Amyn B. Sajoo …