Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought

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Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought

Author	: Michael Cook
File Size	: 45,5 Mb
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 25 January 2001
ISBN	: 9781139431606
Pages	: 724 pages

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Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought by Michael Cook Book PDF Summary

Do we have a duty to stop others doing wrong? The question is intelligible in any civilisation, but only in the Islamic tradition is 'commanding right and forbidding wrong' a central moral tenet. Michael Cook's analysis is the first to chart the history of Islamic reflection on this obligation.

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