Muslim Ethics : Emerging Vistas / Amyn Sajoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sajoo, Amyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2008.

Summary:

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 examines these challenges and critically analyses the implications of emerging initiatives in political pluralism and civic culture as well as moves in biomedicine and environmental conservation. He considers how the contours of public ethics in Islam may be redefined to provide shared conceptions of the good and the practically useful in pluralist societies.

Contents:

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Taking Ethics Seriously: Adab to Zygotes

Chapter 2. Civility and its Discontents

Chapter 3. A Humanist Ethos: The Dance of Secular and Religious

Chapter 4. Pluralist Governance

Appendix A - The Charter of Medina (622 CE)

Appendix B - The Aga Khan Development Network: An Ethical Framework

Appendix C - Excerpts from The Islamic Code of Medical Ethics

Notes

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Index.

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