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Ethical Theories in Islam Majid Fakhry E-Book booksandjournals.brillonline.com offers online access to Brill's books and journals. BRILL Phone (NL) +31 (0)71-53 53 500 Phone (US) +1-671-263-2323 Email: [email protected] In Ethical Theories in Islam, the author has given a typology of Islamic ethics, without overlooking altogether the chronological development. Four such types of ethical theory have been isolated: the scriptural, the theological, the philosophical and the religious. The first edition has already been favourably reviewed by scholars in Europe, America and the Middle East, as a significant contribution to a little-studied subject. This second edition contains extra material from Ibn Sīnā's writings, translated into English for the first time. The book should be of interest to Islamic scholars, philosophers and historians of ethics. All those interested in Islamic thought and the history of ethics, generally; as well as cultural historians. For more information see brill.com/ethical-theories-islam · January 1994 · January 1994 · ISBN 9789004101074 · · Hardback (xii, 238 pp.) · · List Price: €113.- / $146.- · · Language: English · · Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, 8 · · Imprint: BRILL · READERSHIP: View full information on www.brill.com

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Ethical Theories in IslamMajid Fakhry

E-Book

booksandjournals.brillonline.com

offers online access to Brill's books and journals.

BRILLPhone (NL) +31 (0)71-53 53 500Phone (US) +1-671-263-2323Email: [email protected]

In Ethical Theories in Islam, the author has given a typology of Islamic ethics, without overlooking altogether the chronological development. Four such types of ethical theory have been isolated: the scriptural, the theological, the philosophical and the religious.The first edition has already been favourably reviewed by scholars in Europe, America and the Middle East, as a significant contribution to a little-studied subject. This second edition contains extra material from Ibn Sīnā's writings, translated into English for the first time.The book should be of interest to Islamic scholars, philosophers and historians of ethics.

All those interested in Islamic thought and the history of ethics, generally; as well as cultural historians.

For more information see brill.com/ethical-theories-islam

· January 1994· January 1994· ISBN 9789004101074·· Hardback (xii, 238 pp.)·· List Price: €113.- / $146.-·· Language: English·· Islamic Philosophy, Theology and

Science. Texts and Studies, 8·

· Imprint: BRILL·

R E A D E R S H I P :

View full information on www.brill.com