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A pioneering work on controversial issues within the Muslim world
Islamic Ethics of Life considers three of the most contentious ethical issues of our time—abortion, war, and euthanasia—from the Muslim perspective. Distinguished scholars of Islamic studies have collaborated to produce a volume that both integrates Muslim thinking into the field of applied ethics and introduces readers to an aspect of the religion long overlooked in the West. This collective effort sets forth the relationship between Islamic ethics and law, clearly revealing the complexity and richness of the Islamic tradition as well as its responsiveness to these controversial modern issues. The contributors analyze classical sources and survey the modern ethical landscape to identify guiding principles within Islamic ethical thought. Clarifying the importance of pragmatism in Islamic decision making, the contributors also offer case studies related to specialized topics, including ‘wrongful birth’ claims, terrorist attacks, and brain death. The case studies elicit possible variations on common Muslim perspectives. The contributors situate Muslim ethics relative to Christian and secular accounts of the value of human life, exposing surprising similarities and differences.
In an introductory overview of the volume, Jonathan E. Brockopp underscores the steady focus on God as the one who determines the value of human life, and hence as the final arbiter of Islamic ethics. A foreword by Gene Outka places the volume in the context of general ethical studies, and an afterword by A. Kevin Reinhart suggests some significant ramifications for comparative religious ethics.
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Foreword, by Gene Outka
Preface, by Jonathan E. Brockopp
1. Taking Life and Saving Life: The Islamic Context, by Jonathan E. Brockopp
2. The Problem of Abortion in Classical Sunni fiqh, by Marion Holmes Katz
3. Contemporary Muslim Ethics of Abortion, by Donna Lee Bowen
4. The Right Not to Be Born: Abortion of the Disadvantaged Fetus in Contemporary Fatwas, by Vardit Rispler-Chaim
5. Between Functionalism and Morality: The Juristic Debates on the Conduct of War, by Khaled Abou El Fadl
6. Saving and Taking Life in War: Three Modern Muslim Views, by Sohail H. Hashmi
7. Discourses on Jihad in the Postmodern Era, by Richard C. Martin
8. The ‘Good Death’ in Islamic Theology and Law, by Jonathan E. Brockopp
9. Brain Death and Islamic Traditions: Shifting Borders of Life?, by Birgit Krawietz
Afterword: The Past in the Future of Islamic Ethics, by A. Kevin Reinhart
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Jonathan E. Brockopp is an associate professor of religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. The holder of graduate degrees from Yale University, he has published widely in the fields of Islamic law and Islamic ethics. His most recent book, written with Jacob Neusner and Tamara Sonn, is Judaism and Islam in Practice: A Sourcebook. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
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