Cook M A

Forbidding wrong in Islam : an introduction / Michael Cook. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. - xii, 185 p. : map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The elements of the duty of forbidding wrong -- 3. How is wrong to be forbidden? -- 4. When is one unable to forbid wrong? -- 5. What about privacy? -- 6. The state as an agent of forbidding wrong -- 7. The state as an agent of wrongdoing -- 8. Is anyone against forbidding wrong? -- 9. What was forbidding wrong like in practice? -- 10. What has changed for the Sunnis in modern times? -- 11. What has changed for the Imamis in modern times? -- 12. Do non-Islamic cultures have similar values? -- 13. Do we have similar value?

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Islamic ethics
Muslims--Conduct of life
Philosophy Islamic

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