Research Catalog

Title

Coercion and responsibility in Islam : a study in ethics and law / Mairaj U. Syed, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis.

Author

Syed, Mairaj U.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Details

Description

xiii, 259 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"In 'Coercion and Responsibility in Islam', Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action. This is done by assessing four ethical problems: whether the absence of coercion or compulsion is a condition for moral agency; how the law ought to define what is coercive; coercion's effect on the legal validity of speech acts; and its effects on moral and legal responsibility in the cases of rape and murder. Through a comparative and historical examination of these ethical problems, the book demonstrates the usefulness of a new model for analyzing ethical thought produced by intellectuals working within traditions in a competitive pluralistic environment. The book compares classical Muslim thought on coercion with that of modern Western thinkers on these issues and finds significant parallels between them. The finding suggests that a fruitful starting point for comparative ethical inquiry, especially inquiry aimed at the discovery of common ground for ethical action, may be found in an examination of how ethicists from different traditions considered concrete problems."--Publsher's website.

Series Statement

Oxford Islamic legal studies

Uniform Title

Oxford Islamic legal studies.

Subject

• Duress (Islamic law)
• Islam and justice
• 86.14 Islamic law
• Islam and justice

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.

Contents

Compulsion and moral agency in Mu'tazilism -- Coercion and moral agency in Ash'arism -- Defining coercion in Hanafism -- Defining coercion in Shafi'ism -- Coerced speech act jurisprudence in Hanafism and Shafi'ism -- Coerced Harm Jurisprudence in Hanafism and Shafi'ism -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780198788775
• 0198788770

LCCN

2016955719

OCLC

• ocn966971059
• 966971059
• SCSB-1875583

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library