The Essential Facets of Juridical Ethics in the Development of Islamic Ethics
Date and time: March 13, 2023, 18:00-20:00
Speaker: Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina, George Mason University
Kindly sign up by March 12th, 8pm.
Abstract:
The present study has developed Islamic ethical thought by going back to to the scriptural sources, mainly the Qur’an to examine the revelatory compulsion to respond to the fundamental moral-legal question of application that emerge from the religious sources. The classical sources are keenly aware of the synonymity between religion and ethics to direct human life to the development of moral excellence. The study develops an argument that refers to the classical legal theory and application dealing with legal doctrines and judicial decision-making to explore the moral process that has been largely ignored by the orientalist legalistic scholarship until now.
Speaker's bio:
Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., is Professor and Endowed IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has been conducting research and writing in the field of Islamic Law, Ethics, and Theology (Sunni and Shiite) for more than four decades. In the last fifteen years he has concentrated on social and political ethics, including Interfaith and Intrafaith Relations, Islamic Biomedical Ethics and Islam and Human Rights. Dr. Sachedina’s publications include: Islamic Messianism (State University of New York, 1980); Human Rights and the Conflicts of Culture, co-authored (University of South Carolina, 1988); The Just Ruler in Shiite Islam (Oxford University Press, 1988); The Prolegomena to the Qur’an (Oxford University Press, 1998), The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2002), Islamic Biomedical Ethics: Theory and Application (Oxford University Press, February 2009), Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, September 2009), Islamic Ethics: Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct (Oxford University Press, 2022), in addition to numerous articles in academic journals. He is an American citizen born in Tanzania.