Special Issue of Journal of Islamic Ethics (JIE)

Call for Papers

Editor-in-Chief: Mohammed Ghaly, Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE)

Publisher: Brill

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2020

The articles will be dedicated to the moral questions triggered by the novel coronavirus pandemic and how they can be addressed within the broad context of ethics of pandemics throughout history. The chapters will address Islamic Ethics as an interdisciplinary field where a wide range of scholarly disciplines will be engaged, including Islamic theology, philosophy, jurisprudence (fiqh & uṣūl), Sufism, adab.

The focus of the Journal of Islamic Ethics is on the ethical approaches embedded in Islamic philosophy, theology, mysticism and jurisprudence as well as Islamic civilization in general, and, more particularly, on the principles and methods (to be) followed in applying these approaches to various sectors of contemporary social life. These fields include: Arts, Environment, Economics, Education, Gender, Media, Medicine, Migration & Human Rights, Politics and Psychology. The Journal strongly focuses on thematic issues on current events as well as on individual empirical case studies.

Source: CILE Center