Call for Papers

Date: January 5-8, 2023

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022

Organizer: The Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics

The fourteenth annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics will be held from Thursday, January 5 through Sunday, January 8, 2023, at the Hilton Palmer House in Chicago, IL, concurrently with the meetings of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Society of Jewish Ethics.

We welcome paper, panel, or roundtable proposals dealing with all aspects of Muslim/Islamic ethics broadly defined. Paper and panel proposals employing a wide range of methodologies and approaches are welcome, including theoretical and applied ethics, works concerned with the premodern, or modern periods, utilizing historical, social-scientific, literary, theological, philosophical, or legal approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to Islamic/Muslim ethics of science, politics, gender and sexuality, economics, race, bioethics, medicine, animals and the environment, and recently published books on any of these topics.

This year, SSME especially encourages proposals for either single papers or panels that address the following themes:

• Trauma, abuse, and violence
• Covid-19 practices
• Family Ethics
• Prison abolition efforts
• Relationships between politics and science
• Ethics and the Anthropocene
• Social justice

More information on: Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics