Author(s): O. Leirvik
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 304
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Some notes on bibliography, abbreviations and transliteration......Page 10
Part I Introduction: Horizon and focus, terms and methods......Page 11
1 Horizon and focus......Page 13
2 Terms, concepts and methods......Page 19
Part II Christian conscience and Islamic ethics......Page 32
3 The Self and the Other in Christian and European discourses of conscience......Page 34
4 Islamic ethics: Knowing with whom?......Page 48
Part III Interlude: The semantics of damir......Page 74
5 Conscience in Arabic: The semantics of damir......Page 76
Part IV Al-damir in modern Egyptian Muslim authors......Page 89
6 The notions of al-damir and wijdan in Egyptian reformers and writers......Page 91
7 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad (1889–1964): Ethico-religious internalisation, human conscience and Islamic apologetics......Page 100
8 Khalid Muhammad Khalid (1920–96): Conscience, human authenticity and Islamic democracy......Page 138
9 M.Kamil Husayn (1901–77): Conscience as the law of inhibition and the voice of God......Page 188
10 Christians and Muslims in Egypt: United or separated by modernity?......Page 209
11 Conclusions to Part IV......Page 227
Part V Concluding discussions......Page 232
12 Wronging the Self, wronging the Other: Conscience and ethics in modernity......Page 234
13 Conscience in interreligious dialogue: Telling the story of Oneself as Another......Page 246
14 Knowing with God: Face to face with the Other?......Page 259
Notes......Page 262
Bibliography......Page 310
Arabic (and other foreign) terms......Page 326
Name index......Page 329
Subject index......Page 335
