The Politics of Islamic Ethics - 9781009566186

Cambridge University Press

The Politics of Islamic EthicsHierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition\nAuthor(s): Raissa A. von Doetinchem de Rande\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009566186, 978-1009566186\nSynopsis\nFundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fi?ra. Rooting her investigation in the two central passages in the Qur'an and Hadith literature, where it is asserted that God created human beings in a certain way, the author moves beyond discussion of the usual figures who have commented on those texts to look instead at a group of classical Islamic philosophers rarely discussed in conjunction with ethical matters. Tracing the development of fi?ra through this overlooked strand of medieval thinking, von Doetinchem de Rande uses fi?ra as an entre to wider topics in Islamic ethics. She shows that the notio.