Commanding right and forbidding wrong in Islamic thought / Michael Cook.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - 0511018681
- 9780511018688
- 297.5 22
- BJ1291 .C66 2001eb
- online - EBSCO
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (ebsco)77961 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I INTRODUCTORY; PART II THE HANBALITES; PART III THE MUTAZILITES AND SHIITES; PART IV OTHER SECTS AND SCHOOLS; PART V BEYOND CLASSICAL ISLAM; APPENDIX 1 KEY KORANIC VERSES AND TRADITIONS; APPENDIX 2 BARHEBRAEUS ON FORBIDDING WRONG; BIBLIOGRAPHY; POSTSCRIPT; INDEX.
Do we have a duty to stop others doing wrong? The question is intelligible in any civilization, but only in the Islamic tradition is 'commanding right and forbidding wrong' a central moral tenet. Michael Cook's analysis is the first to chart the history of Islamic reflection on this obligation.