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The Historian’s “Unloved Stepchild” No More: The Case for Intellectual Biography as Historical Method in Islamic Studies

Series: Symposium on Law and Politics under the Abbasids

Mariam Sheibani
August 5, 2021January 27, 2024

Siddiqui’s study makes a persuasive case for why intellectual biography can best demonstrate the interaction between political, social, and intersecting lines of intellectual inquiry at a given point in history.

Mitigating Punishment’s Overreach

Syed Atif Rizwan
April 12, 2021

For the criminal legal system to claim it is just, it has no choice but to be governed by principles of fairness that must attend to the real possibility of excessive harm.

Response to Gendered Morality Symposium

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality

Zahra Ayubi
November 10, 2020January 27, 2024

I do not want to throw out the akhlaq texts because I think they do help us think about what it means to live a good life. I just think that we may be better off taking their questions as important ones to be answered, without adopting their answers.

Can the Akhlaq Tradition Be Redeemed When It Comes to Animals?

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality

Robert Tappan
October 30, 2020October 30, 2020

What can akhlaq tell us about how to live as decent and ethical (human) beings in a world in which we now have ample evidence of animal rationality?

Imperfect States

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality

Travis Zadeh
October 28, 2020January 27, 2024

Everything is in flux, constantly changing and reforming. The discipline of the self is never complete, just as group formation is a continual work in progress.

Introduction to Symposium on Gendered Morality

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality

Joshua S. Lupo
October 22, 2020October 28, 2020

Ayubi’s book is an example of rich feminist-critical and philosophical ethics.

Is Morality Gendered? Islamic Philosophical Ethics Meet Feminist Critical Perspectives

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality

Kathryn Kueny
October 12, 2020October 22, 2020

If the ideal, elite, ethical man is defined in terms of his ability to suppress others, then the redistribution of power, no matter who will now benefit from it, cannot be the solution.

Islamic Law, Secularization, and Modernity: Two Islamic Conceptions of the Human

Mohammad H. Fadel
July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

Islamic law (fiqh), far from reflecting an obstacle to secularization—at least in the institutional differentiation sense—was historically a catalyst to it.

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