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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Faraz Masood Sheikh is assistant professor of religious ethics in the Department of Religious Studies at William & Mary.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Faraz Masood Sheikh
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781793620149
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-014-9
• Pagine: 198
• Serie: Lexington Studies in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought; Lexington Studies in Islamic Thought; Bloomsbury Studies in Islamic Thought
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, Theology, Islamic Theology