Master of Arts in Applied Islamic Ethics

يناقش هذا البحث إشكالية العلاقة بين النص والتجربة، وبين النظر والعمل، من خلال النقاشات الكلاسيكية حول وباء الطاعون. ويُحاجّ أنه إذا كان اللاهوت العملي قد هيمن على مناقشة وباء الطاعون، فإن الأخلاقيات التطبيقية (وتحديدًا أسئلة الأخلاق الطبية) قد هيمنت في ظل وباء كورونا. فقد أدى توسع سلطة الطب، ونظام الدولة الحديثة، وبروز حقل الأخلاقيات التطبيقية إلى تراجع الأسئلة الكلامية. ينقسم البحث إلى محورين رئيسين؛ يتناول أولهما الوباء وخصوصية الطاعون، وكيف تحول من موضوع طبي (طبيعي) إلى موضوع ديني (ميتافيزيقي).

This article traces the emergence of ethical thinking (al-tafkīr al-akhlāqī) in Egypt since the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century and seeks to identify the motives and contexts of the resurgence of the field of ethics. This era is informed by its connection in Arab thought to the nahda, the so-called Arab Awakening, and, equally, its coincidence with the movement for the revival of Arab tradition and its dissemination. A great number of studies have examined the reform movement in the

Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the very first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in Qatar. The contributors to this volume, coming from different disciplines and specializations, approached the key ethical questions raised by the emerging field of genomics, viz.

The practice of independent legal reasoning (ijtihād) is a core tool for achieving the moral mission of the discipline of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh); it generates juristic rulings that help people become morally committed humans. Without ijtihād, it would be inconceivable that Islamic divine law could achieve its moral mission in every time and every place.

This chapter focuses upon labour migration to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, since the massive incomes to these countries, particularly from the oil price increase in the 1970s, resulted in one of the great migration stories of the twentieth century. Still significant, today labour migration to the GCC accounts for over 10 per cent of all migrants globally.

The paper is an attempt to identify the continuities and discontinuities between the religious Islamic notion and practice of