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Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
The book has been translated by Arab Network FOR Research and Publishing
This book is a short, accessible survey of the same material.
Using Islamic history to illustrate his argument, Cook unravels the complexities of the subject by demonstrating how the past informs the present.
At the book’s core is an important message about the values of Islamic traditions and their relevance in the modern world.
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.
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
