Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics

Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and teaching on Islamic and comparative peace studies, this book offers a friendship-related academic framework that examines shared moral concepts, philosophical paradigms, and political experiences that can develop and expand multidisciplinary conversations between the Christian West and the Muslim East. By advancing multicultural and interreligious discourses on friendship, this book helps promote actual friendships among diverse cultures and peoples.

This is not a monologue. It provides a model of conversations among scholars and political actors who come from diverse international and interreligious backgrounds. The word “Islamic” should not mislead the reader to suspect that this edited volume delves only into religious discourses. Rather, it provides a forum for conversations within and between religious and philosophical perspectives. It sparks friendship conversations thematically and through disciplinary and cultural diversity. The result of the work of many prominent international scholars and diplomats over many years, it conveys at least one message clearly: friendship matters for not only our happiness but also for our survival.

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Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics

Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and teaching on Islamic and comparative peace studies, this book offers a friendship-related academic framework that examines shared moral concepts, philosophical paradigms, and political experiences that can develop and expand multidisciplinary conversations between the Christian West and the Muslim East. By advancing multicultural and interreligious discourses on friendship, this book helps promote actual friendships among diverse cultures and peoples.

This is not a monologue. It provides a model of conversations among scholars and political actors who come from diverse international and interreligious backgrounds. The word “Islamic” should not mislead the reader to suspect that this edited volume delves only into religious discourses. Rather, it provides a forum for conversations within and between religious and philosophical perspectives. It sparks friendship conversations thematically and through disciplinary and cultural diversity. The result of the work of many prominent international scholars and diplomats over many years, it conveys at least one message clearly: friendship matters for not only our happiness but also for our survival.

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Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics

Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics

by Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati (Editor)
Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics

Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics

by Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati (Editor)

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Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and teaching on Islamic and comparative peace studies, this book offers a friendship-related academic framework that examines shared moral concepts, philosophical paradigms, and political experiences that can develop and expand multidisciplinary conversations between the Christian West and the Muslim East. By advancing multicultural and interreligious discourses on friendship, this book helps promote actual friendships among diverse cultures and peoples.

This is not a monologue. It provides a model of conversations among scholars and political actors who come from diverse international and interreligious backgrounds. The word “Islamic” should not mislead the reader to suspect that this edited volume delves only into religious discourses. Rather, it provides a forum for conversations within and between religious and philosophical perspectives. It sparks friendship conversations thematically and through disciplinary and cultural diversity. The result of the work of many prominent international scholars and diplomats over many years, it conveys at least one message clearly: friendship matters for not only our happiness but also for our survival.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472126040
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/20/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati is Presidential Scholar in Islamic Studies and Chair in Middle East and North African Studies at Oberlin College.

Table of Contents

Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Introduction / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati Part 1. Friendship in Primary Sources: Definitions, Epistemological Realms, and Conceptual Frameworks 1. Friendship in Arabic: Its Synonyms, Etymologies, and Transformations / A. Z. Obiedat 2. Treatment of Friends / Ibn al-Muqaffa', Translated from Arabic by Ali Yedes 3. Friendship and Love in Islamic Spirituality / William C. Chittick 4. Aristotle and Iranian Ethicists: Friendship as a Moral and a Political Paradigm / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati 5. The Mystery of Friendship: A View from Islam / Paul L. Heck 6. Three Dimensions of Friendship: A Qur'ānic Perspective / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati Part 2. Friendship within and between Religions, Nations, and Civilizations 7. Friendship in Pre-Islamic Iranian Writings / Jamsheed K. Choksy 8. On Friendship / Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi 9. Friendship in Confucian Islam / Sachiko Murata 10. Friendship between Islamic and Christian Civilizations / Richard Bulliet 11. Friendship in the Muslim World / Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri 12. Friendship between Religions and Cultures: The Foundation for Friendship between Civilizations / Seyyed Hossein Nasr 13. Friendship in International Relations / Iqbal Riza Part 3. Friendship as an Agent of a Paradigm Shift in Human Relations 14. Will to Friendship: Rūmī's Perspective / Abdolkarim Soroush 15. Friends without Borders: A Case Study / John Marks 16. Global Loneliness and the State of Human Mental Health: How Religion Can Promote Friendship as a Paradigm of Peace in Postmodernity / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati Epilogue: A Friendship Manifesto / Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati Appendix: A Sample Friendship Resolution Notes Bibliography Index
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