Stability and change in the modern Middle East / Kjetil Selvik and Stig Stenslie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selvik, Kjetil, author.

Stenslie, Stig, author.

Standardized Title:

Stabilitetens pris. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics--Middle East.

Islam and politics.

Middle East--Economic conditions--21st century.

Middle East.

Middle East--Foreign relations--21st century.

Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living. In keeping with this dictum, taking ethics seriously means engaging with the real world where the human sense of right and wrong is daily tested. At their best, all faith traditions are challenged by such testing; and if faith-inspired ethics are thought to goven the whole of life, their guiding values need constantly to be interpreted by the believer to achieve a practical result. In the Muslim tradition, this is what the Qur'an really amounts to: a call to strive for belief with a social conscience. For fourteen centuries Muslim scholars have grappled with the implications of that call in matters of law, social practice and theology. And in our own time, the quests for civil society and the rule of law have much to do with the response given to these ethical questions. 'A Companion to Muslim Ethics' explores Islam's core conception of the good, shared with other great traditions. Leading experts examine issues such as gender equality, nonviolence, dispute resolution, the environment, health and finance. The volume will appeal to all those interested in how reason, faith and circumstance shape difficult moral choices in an increasingly globalised world."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Contents:

Historical background. Troubled heritage

Society and state. Class ; Ethnicity

The quest for legitimacy. Reformism ; Islamism

Institutions and power. Monarchies ; Republics

Scenarios of change. Democratisation ; Breakdown.

Notes:

Originally published as: Stabilitetens pris. Bergen : Fagbokforlaget, 2007.

Translated from Norwegian by John Meyrick.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-284) and index.

ISBN:

9786613152367

9780755611195

0755611195

9781283152365

1283152363

9780857719669

0857719661

OCLC:

740447241