Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Virtue and its Implications for Contemporary Human Rights

2021-09-07 Philosophy

Author : Irfaan Jaffer
Release : 2021-09-07
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Virtue and its Implications for Contemporary Human Rights written by Irfaan Jaffer. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Virtue and its Implications for Human Rights" concentrates on the subject of Islam and modernity and Islam and human rights, a topic that has become popular and relevant with the rise of globalization and the interest in Islamic extremism and human rights. This book distinguishes itself by operating within the framework of the traditional school of thought or ‘Islamic Traditionalism’. In doing so, it draws on Islam’s 1400-year-old spiritual and intellectual tradition and its understanding of ethics and virtue, along with truth, justice, freedom, and equality. This book argues that Islam’s pre-modern approach is indispensable in creating an organic and integral human rights model for Muslims. The first section argues that the current understanding and implementation of international human rights needs to be more flexible and inclusive if it truly aims to be universal in scope; this is because ‘The Universal Declaration’ and its offshoots are still underpinned by secular-liberal principles, and therefore, are at odds with other cultural traditions. To this end, this section critically explores popular human rights histories and contemporary ethical theories that attempt to justify human rights. The second section of this book provides a general overview on the subject of ‘Islam and Human Rights’. After explaining some of the main problems, this section examines various solutions offered by Muslim academics and scholars, focusing on four different types of Muslim responses to modernity and human rights: liberal, progressive, traditional, and fundamentalist. It concludes that there are ‘spaces of convergence’ between modern-liberal ethics and traditional Islamic virtue ethics while maintaining that there are also fundamental differences and that these differences should be welcomed by human rights theorists and advocates. The book’s intended audience is primarily post-graduate students and professional academics in the fields of Human Rights, Ethical Philosophy, and Islamic Studies (modern Islamic thought, Sufism, Islamic theology, Islamic Philosophy, and Traditionalism). It will also appeal to anyone interested in the subject of Islam and modernity in general and Islam and human rights in particular.

Traditional Islamic Ethics

2021-05-17

Author : Irfaan Jaffer
Release : 2021-05-17
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Download or read book Traditional Islamic Ethics written by Irfaan Jaffer. This book was released on 2021-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Virtue and its Implications for Human Rights" concentrates on the subject of Islam and modernity and Islam and human rights, a topic that has become popular and relevant with the rise of globalization and the interest in Islamic extremism and human rights. This book distinguishes itself by operating within the framework of the traditional school of thought or 'Islamic Traditionalism'. In doing so, it draws on Islam's 1400-year-old spiritual and intellectual tradition and its understanding of ethics and virtue, along with truth, justice, freedom, and equality. This book argues that Islam's pre-modern approach is indispensable in creating an organic and integral human rights model for Muslims. The first section argues that the current understanding and implementation of international human rights needs to be more flexible and inclusive if it truly aims to be universal in scope; this is because 'The Universal Declaration' and its offshoots are still underpinned by secular-liberal principles, and therefore, are at odds with other cultural traditions. To this end, this section critically explores popular human rights histories and contemporary ethical theories that attempt to justify human rights. The second section of this book provides a general overview on the subject of 'Islam and Human Rights'. After explaining some of the main problems, this section examines various solutions offered by Muslim academics and scholars, focusing on four different types of Muslim responses to modernity and human rights: liberal, progressive, traditional, and fundamentalist. It concludes that there are 'spaces of convergence' between modern-liberal ethics and traditional Islamic virtue ethics while maintaining that there are also fundamental differences and that these differences should be welcomed by human rights theorists and advocates. The book's intended audience is primarily post-graduate students and professional academics in the fields of Human Rights, Ethical Philosophy, and Islamic Studies (modern Islamic thought, Sufism, Islamic theology, Islamic Philosophy, and Traditionalism). It will also appeal to anyone interested in the subject of Islam and modernity in general and Islam and human rights in particular.

Traditional Islamic Ethics

2018

Author : Irfaan Jaffer
Release : 2018
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Download or read book Traditional Islamic Ethics written by Irfaan Jaffer. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is made up of two main sections. The first section argues that the current social culture and legal structure of international human rights needs to be more flexible and inclusive if it truly aims to be universal in scope. This is because The Universal Declaration and its offshoots are still underpinned by secular-liberal principles and therefore, they are at odds with other cultural traditions. To this end, this section critically explores popular human rights histories and contemporary ethical theories that attempt to justify human rights. In doing so, it argues that the debate is still ongoing and therefore, the exclusion of any alternative visions is unjustified. Thus, the goal of the first section is to create a space of dialogue for one such alternative vision. The second section of this dissertation constructs a theory of virtue ethics that has the ability to ground an Islamic vision of human rights. This is because virtue ethics addresses fundamental questions concerning human existence which ultimately determine the constitution of human rights. In order to answer these questions, this study operates within the framework of the school of Islamic Traditionalism and in doing so, it concludes that much of the friction between Islam and contemporary human rights is due to the fact that the latter emphasizes secular-liberal understandings of freedom, equality, and justice. In contrast, this study argues that an Islamic human rights model must be grounded in God and His revelation and moreover, that it must emphasize human duties, inward transformation, and societal balance. It also argues that an Islamic human rights society is one that is filled with reminders of the Divine presence and structured in a way that allows Muslims to achieve their primary purpose in life a virtuous Heart in this world and felicity in the hereafter. The second section concludes by offering some introductory remarks concerning contemporary human rights issues such as the implementation of Islamic law in general, pluralism, corporal punishment, and gender. In doing so, this study argues that there are spaces of convergence that create a minimal overlapping consensus between the two traditions. However, this study also argues that there are fundamental differences and that these differences should be welcomed by human rights theorists and advocates.

Islamic Ethics

2022-06-10 Philosophy

Author : Abdulaziz Sachedina
Release : 2022-06-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Islamic Ethics written by Abdulaziz Sachedina. This book was released on 2022-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, represented by thinkers such as Avicenna, and one theological, represented by such figures as the famous theologian al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar. Some later scholars attempted to combine those two traditions. For the most part, however, the views of the jurists have been ignored. Abdulaziz Sachedina here calls attention to this third tradition of ethics, which has its home in legal literature. The problem is that Islamic jurists did not produce a genre of ethical manuals, and their form of ethics, which Sachedina terms juridical ethics, must be derived or extracted from works that ostensibly treat legal rulings and obligations, or scriptural hermeneutics and legal theory. Presenting an outline of the version of Islamic ethics that is embedded in the textual legacy of the Islamic legal tradition, he argues that this juridical ethics is an important, even dominant form of ethics in modern Islam. He notes that this form of ethics has been challenged by modernity and examines the variety of ways in which legal ethical thinkers have reacted. How do Muslim religious leaders come to grips with modern demands of directing their communities to live as modern citizens of nation-states? What kind of moral and spiritual resources are being garnered by their scholars to respond to the new issues in sciences, more immediately in medicine, and constantly changing social relationships? To answer these pressing questions, it is necessary to go beyond the philosophical ethics of virtue and human character and acknowledge the importance of ethics to the formulation in Muslim interpretive jurisprudence of religious and moral decisions that are based on reason and revelation.

Contemporary Bioethics

2015-05-27 Medical

Author : Mohammed Ali Al-Bar
Release : 2015-05-27
Genre : Medical
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Download or read book Contemporary Bioethics written by Mohammed Ali Al-Bar. This book was released on 2015-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guidance through which human communities have been guided at all times through history. The second part of the book concentrates on the objectives of Islamic religious practice – the maqa' sid – which include: Preservation of Faith, Preservation of Life, Preservation of Mind (intellect and reason), Preservation of Progeny (al-nasl) and Preservation of Property. Lastly, the third part of the book discusses selected topical issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction devices, genetics, organ transplantation, brain death and end-of-life aspects. For each topic, the current medical evidence is followed by a detailed discussion of the ethical issues involved.

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