Omar Farahat

Ethics and the Self in Islam

World Religions

“This is a welcome and much-needed contribution at the intersection of two important turns in the study of Islam: the emphasis on ethics and the growing interest in the question of the self and personhood. The volume brings together experts in a wide range of disciplines to examine this complex set of concepts from the perspectives of exegetical, jurisprudential, philosophical, mystical, and postcolonial studies. In doing so, it simultaneously deepens our understanding of the relation between ethics and the self in Islamic intellectual traditions and situates the Islamic approaches to those notions within the humanities more broadly.”