Justice in Islam: New Ethical Perspectives

Edited by Ramon Harvey and Daniel Tutt

Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

Publication Date: July 1, 2023

Hardcover: 153 Pages

ISBN: 9781642056563

From its roots in the Qur’an and the life of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to its branches in contemporary political and social movements, Islam has always been concerned with the question of social justice. The promise of a just order on earth has motivated both the reflections of the community of scholars and the actions of Muslims who have striven to realize it within their societies. Despite the disappointments that history has often delivered, the hope for justice remains undimmed as does the struggle to achieve it today.

This concise volume focuses on some of the ways that the theme of justice is explored in emerging currents of Islamic thought. Chapters discuss new theological and ethical proposals in the light of contemporary philosophical developments; ideas of gender justice that provoke a reformist challenge to the received tradition; and regional contexts, such as Turkey, Iran and Japan, in which the question of Islam’s relationship to justice is sharpened by the particularities of history and locale. The contributions to this collection raise the prospect that if justice can be imagined more perfectly as an Islamic ideal, perhaps it can be brought into reality.

Table of Contents

Mapping Justice in Islamic Thought: From the Premodern to the Postmodern
Ramon Harvey and Daniel Tutt

Part 1: Theologies, Ethics and Politics

1. Taha Abderrahmane’s Ethics of Ihsān: A Lopsided Conception of Justice and Citizenship
   Monir Birouk
2. Whose Justice? When Māturīdī Meets MacIntyre
   Ramon Harvey

Part 2: Regional Discourses of Feminism and Hermeneutics

3. The Hermeneutics of Justice: Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal and the Artistry of the Qur’an
   Philip Dorroll
4. Islamic Jurisprudence in Iran: Traditionalism, Reformism and Gender Justice
   Samaneh Oladi
5. Okawa Shumei’s and Toshihiko Izutsu’s Islamic Studies and its Implications for Understanding Justice
   Xiaofei Tu

About Editors

Ramon Harvey (Aziz Foundation Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Cambridge Muslim College) works in the fields of Qur’anic studies, theology, and ethics, both as an intellectual historian and theologian. He is the author of The Qur’an and the Just Society (2018) and Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology (2021), which are published by Edinburgh University Press. He is also the editor of the monograph series Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology. He earned his doctorate from SOAS, University of London.

Daniel Tutt (Lecturer in Philosophy, George Washington University) works on continental philosophy, contemporary social and political movements, Islamic thought and psychoanalysis. His forthcoming book is entitled Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation and will be published in the Palgrave Lacan Series in 2022. His writing has been published in Philosophy Now, The Islamic Monthly and Crisis and Critique, among other publications. He teaches philosophy at George Washington University, and Marymount University and has taught inmates through the Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative.

Download the full text HERE.

Source: Amazon