Being Muslim in a Morally Relative World

Muhammad Awais Shaukat

doi:10.5771/9781666966275

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-6626-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-6627-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 134
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
1. Notes No access
1. Morality, Ethics, and Conscience No access
2. 1. 1. Relativism in Ancient Greeks No access
  2. Semitic Religions No access
3. Fundamental Agreements between the Classical Traditions Regarding the Concept of Man and Morality No access
4. Notes No access
1. Islamic Value System: Absolute and Divine No access
2. The Pre-Islamic Morality of Arabs No access
3. 1. 1. Some Terms in the Qur’an for Elaborating “Good” and “Evil” No access
    2. Salih No access
    3. Taqwa No access
    4. Birr No access
    5. Ihsan No access
    6. Sayyi’at No access
    7. Adl No access
    8. Fasad No access
    9. Maruf and Munkar No access
    10. Sunnah as the Source of Morality No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Spirituality: The Real Dignity of Man No access
2. Ammanah and the Free Will No access
3. Servitude to Allah: the Sole Purpose of Man’s Creation No access
4. Fitra: The Innate Sense of “Good” and “Evil” No access
5. 1. The Non-Philosophical Nature of Arabs No access
  2. 1. Mu’tazila No access
    2. Ash‘ariyya No access
  3. 1. Maturidiyya No access
    2. Al-Ghazali (1058–1111) No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. Renaissance No access
2. Reformation: A Revolt against Church No access
3. The Scientific Discoveries and the Emergence of a New Criterion for Veracity No access
4. Philosophical Revolution: Liberation from All Orthodoxies No access
5. Enlightenment and New Collective Ideals No access
6. Modernity and the Dominance of Eurocentric Secular Value System No access
7. The Advent of Postmodernism No access
8. Possibility of Religion in Postmodernism No access
9. “Human” from Transcendence to Homo Sapiens and the Relative Morality No access
10. Conclusion No access
11. Notes No access
1. 1. Classical Moral Relativism No access
  2. Neo Moral Relativism No access
2. 1. Descriptive Moral Relativism No access
  2. Cultural Moral Relativism No access
  3. Ethical Non-Realism No access
  4. Ethical Non-Cognitivism No access
  5. Meta-Ethical Relativism No access
  6. Normative Relativism No access
3. Arguments for Moral Relativism No access
4. Argument against Moral Relativism No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. Islam: The Inclusive Religion No access
  2. Peaceful Coexistence within the Islamic Paradigm No access
2. 1. Islamic Modernism: A Reaction to Subjugation or a Prescription for Life No access
3. Polarization in Islamic Societies and Traditionalist View of the Current Scenario No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. Sample of the Study No access
  2. Questionnaire for Study No access
  3. Results of the Survey No access
2. Discussion and Analysis No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
1. Recommendations No access
2. The Real Task Ahead No access
Bibliography No access Pages 123 - 126
Index No access Pages 127 - 132
About the Author No access Pages 133 - 134