Islamic Ethics: a very select bibliography

POSTED BY PATRICK S. O'DONNELL

Here is a very select list of titles, in English, on “Islamic ethics.” Of course ethics in Islam cannot be discussed without — at the very least— a corresponding knowledge of Islamic theology and jurisprudence. Still, and for eminently reasonable if not rational philosophical and comparative reasons, we can make sense of “Islamic ethics” as such, much in the manner we speak of and write about other kinds of religious ethics (e.g., Christian, Buddhist...). 

• Ali, Kecia. Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith and Jurisprudence. London: Oneworld, 2006.
• Brockopp, Jonathan E., ed. Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia. Columbia,  SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 
• Brockopp, Jonathan E. and Thomas Eich, eds. Muslim Medical Ethics: From Theory to Practice. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 
• Cook, Michael. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 
• Fakhry, Majid. Ethical Theories in Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. 
• Goodman, Lenn E. Islamic Humanism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003. 
• Hourani, George F. Islamic Rationalism: The Ethics of ‛Abd al-Jabbār. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1971. 
• Hourani, George F. Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985.  
• Kelsay, John. Islam and War: The Gulf War and Beyond—A Study in Comparative Ethics.  Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993. 
• Kelsay, John and James Turner Johnson, eds. Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publ. Group, 1991. 
• Ramadan, Tariq. Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.  
• Ramadan, Tariq. Islamic Ethics: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.  
• Sachedina, Abdulaziz. Islamic Biomedical Ethics: Principles and Application. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 
• Sajoo, Amyn B. Muslim Ethics: Emerging Vistas. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 
• Sajoo, Amyn B., ed. A Companion to Muslim Ethics. London: I.B. Tauris, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2010.

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