Forging Ideal Muslim Subjects - Discursive Practices, Subject Formation, & Muslim Ethics

This book describes and analyzes Muhasibi's and Nursi's accounts of what it means to live an authentically Muslim ethical life. It documents and examines the discursive practice, reflectivity, dynamism and complexity involved in living properly as a Muslim individual and social being.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration



Introduction

Narrating Ideal Muslim Subjectivities in a Foucauldian Register



Chapter One

Muhasibian Religious Subjectivity & the Travails of Sincerity



Chapter Two

Living with Vulnerabilities: Muhasibian Moral Subjectivity and Self-Care



Chapter Three

Belief Perspectives & the Nursian Religious Subject



Chapter Four

Nursian Believer as Moral Subject



Conclusion

Forging Ideal Subjectivities Everyday & Over a Lifetime



Bibliography

Index

About the Author

About the author

By Faraz Masood Sheikh

Product details

• Authors: Faraz Masood Sheikh
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781793620149
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-014-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Lexington Studies in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought; Lexington Studies in Islamic Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, Theology, Islamic Theology