Muslim Ethics Emerging Vistas

by Sajoo, Amyn B.

• ISBN13: 9781845117160
• ISBN10: 1845117166
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

Recent political and social events as well as advances in science and technology have posed challenges to the traditional Muslim discourse on ethics. In this latest in the series of Occasional Papers produced by the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Amyn B. Sajoo examines these challenges, and through a critical analysis of the implications of emerging initiatives in political pluralism and civic culture, in bio-medicine and environmental conservatism, considers how the contours of public ethics in Islam may be redefined to provide shared conceptions of the good in pluralist societies.

Author Biography

Amyn B. Sajoo is currently a Visiting Scholar at McGill University. He is also a regular commentator on public affairs in the news media on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the editor of Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives and the author of Pluralism in Old Societies and New States.

Table of Contents

Preface

Note on the contributors

Modern Ismaili History and Scholarship: An Overview

Nizari Ismailis: Communal Organization, Institutions, Policies and Reforms

Imam's Authority, Communal Organization and Shifting Identity among the Indian Ismailis (1843-1957)

The Aga Khan Development Network and Institutions

Communities of Tradition and the Modernising of Education

Gender Policies of Aga Khan III and Aga Khan IV

Caring for the Built Environment

Nizari Ismailis: Regional Traditions, Developments and Problems

Migration, Allegiances and Shifting Practices: Rearticulating Nizari Ismailism in Iran Post 1840

Nizari Ismailis of Syria

Ismailis of Central Asia: Modern History

Khojas of South Asia and their Literary Traditions: Acculturation and Identity

Khojas of East Africa and the Circumstances Leading to their Immigration to the West

At the Interstices of Tradition, Modernity and Postmodernity: Ismaili Engagements with Contemporary Canadian Society

Nizari Ismailis in the West and their Relations with Non-Muslim Host Societies

Mustali-Tayyibi Ismailis: Communal Organization, Leadership and Policies

The Daudi Bohra Ayyibis: Ideology, Literature, Learning and Social Practice

History of the Dawoodi-Bohra Tayyibis in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Da'is, the Dawat and the Community

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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