Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword by Michael Marmura
- Conventions
- Titles and locations of the original articles
- Introduction
- 1 Islamic theology and Muslim philosophy
- 2 Ethics in classical Islam: a conspectus
- 3 Ethical presuppositions of the Qurʾān
- 4 ‘Injuring oneself’ in the Qurʾān, in the light of Aristotle
- 5 Two theories of value in early Islam
- 6 Islamic and non-Islamic origin of Muʿtazilite ethical rationalism
- 7 The rationalist ethics of ʿAbd al-Jabbār
- 8 Deliberation in Aristotle and ʿAbd al-Jabbār
- 9 Ashʿarī
- 10 Juwaynī's criticisms of Muʿtazilite ethics
- 11 Ghazālī on the ethics of action
- 12 Reason and revelation in Ibn Ḥazm's ethical thought
- 13 The basis of authority of consensus in Sunnite Islam
- 14 Ibn Sīnā's ‘Essay on the secret of destiny’
- 15 Averroes on good and evil
- 16 Combinations of reason and tradition in Islamic ethics
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword by Michael Marmura
- Conventions
- Titles and locations of the original articles
- Introduction
- 1 Islamic theology and Muslim philosophy
- 2 Ethics in classical Islam: a conspectus
- 3 Ethical presuppositions of the Qurʾān
- 4 ‘Injuring oneself’ in the Qurʾān, in the light of Aristotle
- 5 Two theories of value in early Islam
- 6 Islamic and non-Islamic origin of Muʿtazilite ethical rationalism
- 7 The rationalist ethics of ʿAbd al-Jabbār
- 8 Deliberation in Aristotle and ʿAbd al-Jabbār
- 9 Ashʿarī
- 10 Juwaynī's criticisms of Muʿtazilite ethics
- 11 Ghazālī on the ethics of action
- 12 Reason and revelation in Ibn Ḥazm's ethical thought
- 13 The basis of authority of consensus in Sunnite Islam
- 14 Ibn Sīnā's ‘Essay on the secret of destiny’
- 15 Averroes on good and evil
- 16 Combinations of reason and tradition in Islamic ethics
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985