Forbidding wrong in Islam : an introduction / Michael Cook.

Michael Cook's magisterial study in Islamic ethics, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, was published to much acclaim in 2001. It was described by one reviewer as a masterpiece. In that book, the author reflected on the Islamic injunction, incumbent on every Muslim, to for...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Cook, Michael, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Themes in Islamic history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • 2. elements of the duty of forbidding wrong
  • 3. How is wrong to be forbidden?
  • 4. When is one unable to forbid wrong?
  • 5. What about privacy?
  • 6. state as an agent of forbidding wrong
  • 7. state as an agent of wrongdoing
  • 8. Is anyone against forbidding wrong?
  • 9. What was forbidding wrong like in practice?
  • 10. What has changed for the Sunnis in modern times?
  • 11. What has changed for the Imamis in modern times?
  • 12. Do non-Islamic cultures have similiar values?
  • 13. Do we have similar value?