1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248347803316

Autore

Cook Michael <1940->

Titolo

Commanding right and forbidding wrong in Islamic thought / / Michael Cook [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-107-11826-3

1-280-16233-3

0-511-11809-0

0-511-01868-1

0-511-15589-1

0-511-30401-3

0-511-49745-8

0-511-04880-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 702 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

297.5

Soggetti

Islamic ethics

Religious life - Shīʻah

Religious life - Islam

Islam - Doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [604]-[660] and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introductory -- pt. 2. The Hanbalites -- pt. 3. The Mu'tazilites and Shi'ites -- pt. 4. Other sects and schools -- pt. 5. Beyond classical Islam.

Sommario/riassunto

What kind of duty do we have to try to stop other people doing wrong? The question is intelligible in just about any culture, but few of them seek to answer it in a rigourous fashion. The most striking exception is found in the Islamic tradition, where 'commanding right' and 'forbidding wrong' is a central moral tenet already mentioned in the Koran. As an historian of Islam whose research has ranged widely over space and time, Michael Cook is well placed to interpret this complex subject. His book represents the first sustained attempt to map the history of Islamic reflection on this obligation. It covers the origins of



Muslim thinking about 'forbidding wrong', the relevant doctrinal developments over the centuries, and its significance in Sunni and Shi'ite thought today. In this way the book contributes to the understanding of Islamic thought, its relevance to contemporary Islamic politics and ideology, and raises fundamental questions for the comparative study of ethics.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910410649003321

Autore

Cherstich Igor

Titolo

Anthropologies of Revolution : Forging Time, People, and Worlds / / Igor Cherstich, Martin Holbraad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-520-97516-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

813/.52

B

Soggetti

Revolutions - Anthropological aspects

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Multiplying Revolutions -- 1. Revolution as Event -- 2. State and Revolution -- 3. The Revolutionary Person -- 4. The Revolutionary Leader -- 5. Revolution and Ideology -- 6. Revolutionary Cosmologies -- Conclusion. Worlds in Revolution -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit. Viewing revolutions as all-embracing, world-creating projects, the authors ask readers to



move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts of violent political rupture, and instead view them as processes of societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of people’s lives, unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human existence.