Gendered Morality : Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society / Zahra M. S. Ayubi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayubi, Zahra M. S., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Religious aspects--Islam.

Sex role.

Femininity--Religious aspects--Islam.

Femininity.

Masculinity--Religious aspects--Islam.

Masculinity.

Marriage--Religious aspects--Islam.

Marriage.

Social ethics--Religious aspects--Islam.

Social ethics.

Islam--Social aspects.

Islam.

Islamic philosophy.

Religion and social status.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Islamic scriptural sources offer potentially radical notions of equality. Yet medieval Islamic philosophers chose to establish hierarchical, male-centered virtue ethics. In Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender equality that are unlocked by feminist engagement with the Islamic ethical tradition.Developing a lens for a feminist philosophy of Islam, Ayubi analyzes constructions of masculinity, femininity, and gender relations in classic works of philosophical ethics. In close readings of foundational texts by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, Nasir-ad Din Tusi, and Jalal ad-Din Davani, she interrogates how these thinkers conceive of the ethical human being as an elite male within a hierarchical cosmology built on the exclusion of women and nonelites. Yet in the course of prescribing ethical behavior, the ethicists speak of complex gendered and human relations that contradict their hierarchies. Their metaphysical premises about the nature of the divine, humanity, and moral responsibility indicate a potential egalitarian core. Gendered Morality offers a vital and disruptive new perspective on patriarchal Islamic ethics and metaphysics, showing the ways in which the philosophical tradition can support the aims of gender justice and human flourishing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Epistemology and Gender Analytics of Islamic Ethics

CHAPTER TWO. Gendered Metaphysics, Perfection, and Power of the (Hu)man's Soul

CHAPTER THREE. Ethics of Marriage and the Domestic Economy

CHAPTER FOUR. Homosocial Masculinity and Societal Ethics

Conclusion. Prolegomenon to Feminist Philosophy of Islam

Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780231549349

0231549342

OCLC:

1104716592