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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      27 May 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511806766
      9780521829137
      9780521536028
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511806766
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 200 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 200 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Religion, Middle East History
      Series:
      Themes in Islamic History (3)
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Religion, Middle East History
    Series:
    Themes in Islamic History (3)
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    Michael Cook's magisterial study in Islamic ethics, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, was published to much acclaim in 2001. It was described by one reviewer as a masterpiece. In that book, the author reflected on the Islamic injunction, incumbent on every Muslim, to forbid wrongdoing. The present book is a short, accessible survey of the same material. Using anecdotes and stories from Islamic sources to illustrate the argument, Cook unravels the complexities of the subject. Moving backwards and forwards through time, he demonstrates how the past informs the present. By the end, the reader will be familiar with a colourful array of characters from Islamic history ranging from the celebrated thinker Ghazzali, to the caliph Harun al-Rashid, to the Ayatollah Khumayni. The book educates and entertains - at its heart, however, is an important message about the Islamic tradition, its values, and the relevance of those values today.

    Reviews

    ‘The author’s approach is historical but not chronological, and he moves backwards and forwards in time with an erudition which is outstanding ... I can heartily recommend it.'

    Source: History Today

    ‘One of the virtues of Michael Cook is his skill in taking the discourse beyond the terrain of dry academic preoccupations and anchor the discussion in how our outlook on this perspective of law affects our whole view of morality and society. An excellent abridgment offering a comprehensive and accessible overview of the subject. Cambridge University Press is to be congratulated on this, their third in the series Themes in Islamic History.’

    Source: The Queensland Lawyer

    'It is no doubt the best (and probably the only serious) work on forbidding wrong …'.

    Source: The Muslim World Book Review

    '… every modern student of Islamic law should study this work seriously.'

    Afzal Sumar Source: Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies

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