Being an Intelligent Slave of God

How did premodern Muslim thinkers talk about living authentically as a Muslim in the world? How, in their view, could selves transform themselves into ideal religious subjects or slaves of God? Which virtues, technologies of the self and intersubjective relations did they see implicated in inhabitin...

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Main Author: Sheikh, Faraz Masood 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-152
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Muḥāsibī, al-Ḥāriṯ Ibn-Asad al- 786-857 / Ethics / Muslim / Experience of God
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
NCB Personal ethics
Further subjects:B Discourse
B Ethics
B Islam
B self-formation
B Subjectivity
B comparative religious ethics
B al-Muḥāsibī
B Virtues
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Summary:How did premodern Muslim thinkers talk about living authentically as a Muslim in the world? How, in their view, could selves transform themselves into ideal religious subjects or slaves of God? Which virtues, technologies of the self and intersubjective relations did they see implicated in inhabiting or attaining what I shall call ʿabdī subjectivity? In this paper, I make explicit how various discursive, ethical strategies formed, informed, and transformed Muslim subjectivity in early Muslim thought by focusing on the writings of an important ninth century Muslim moral pedagogue, al-Muḥāsibī (d. 857). This study illustrates the advantages of approaching early Muslim texts and discourses through the tools and methods made available by comparative religious ethics in order to reexamine our understanding of Muslim subject formation and the role of ethical and theological discourses in the same.
ISSN:1467-9795
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12252