Friendship in Islamic ethics and world politics / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahallati, Mohammad Jafar Amir, 1952- editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship--Religious aspects--Islam.

Friendship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Summary:

Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and teaching on Islamic and comparative peace studies, this book offers a friendship-related academic framework that examines shared moral concepts, philosophical paradigms and political experiences that can help developing and expanding multi-disciplinary conversations between the Christian West and the Muslim East. By advancing multicultural and inter-religious discourses on friendship, this book helps promoting actual friendships among diverse cultures and peoples.

This book has no published parallels, so far, in the current century. Most important, it is not a monologue. Rather, it provides a model of conversations among scholars and political actors who come from diverse international and inter-religious backgrounds. The word "Islamic" should not mislead the reader to suspect that this edited volume delves only into religious discourses. On the contrary, it provides a forum for conversations both within and between religious as well as philosophical perspectives. In short, the book is a forum for friendship conversations both thematically and also in terms of disciplinary and cultural diversity. This volume presents a model for intellectual conversations about friendship. The result of the work of many prominent international scholars and diplomats over many years, it conveys at least one message clearly: friendship matters for not only our happiness but also for our survival.

Contents:

Part 1. Friendship in primary sources: definitions, epistemological realms, and conceptual frameworks

1. Friendship in Arabic: its synonyms, etymologies, and transformations / A.Z. Obiedat

2. Treatment of friends / Ibn al-Mugaffaʻ ; translated from Arabic by Ali Yedes

3. Friendship and love in Islamic spirituality / William C.Chittick

4. Aristotle and Iranian ethicists: friendship as a moral and a political paradigm / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati

5. The mystery of friendship: a view from Islam / Paul L. Heck

6. Three dimensions of friendship: a Qurʻānic perspective / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati

Part 2: Friendship within and between religions, nations, and civilizations 7. Friendship in pre-Islamic Iranian writings / Jamsheed K. Choksy

8. On friendship / Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

9. Friendship in Confucian Islam / Sachiko Murata

. 10. Friendship between Islamic and Christian civilizations / Richard Bulliet

.11. Friendship in the Muslim world / Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri 12. Friendship between religions and cultures: the foundation for friendship between civilizations / Seyyed Hossein Nasr

13. Friendship in international relations / Iqbal Riza

Part 3. Friendship as an agent of a paradigm shift in human relations

. 14. Will to friendship: Rūmī's perspective / Abdolkarim Soroush

15. Friends without borders: a case study / John Marks

16. Global loneliness and the state of human mental health: how religion can promote friendship as a paradigm of peace in postmodernity / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati

Epilogue: A friendship manifesto / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati

Appendix: A sample friendship resolution

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472126040

0472126040

OCLC:

1107991352