Al-damir, human conscience and Christian-Muslim relations
Can human conscience be a uniting bond between Christians and Muslims, across moral and religious differences? This article discusses the notion of d˛amr as employed by the Egyptian Muslim authors ˛Abbas Mah˛mud al-˛Aqqad, Khalid Muh˛ammad Khalid and M. Kamil H˛usayn. In the 1950s and 1960s, these a...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2003, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 277-297 |
| Further subjects: | B
ethical argumentation
B Dialogue B Islam B Ethische Argumentation B Christianity B Conscience B Humanism |
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| Summary: | Can human conscience be a uniting bond between Christians and Muslims, across moral and religious differences? This article discusses the notion of d˛amr as employed by the Egyptian Muslim authors ˛Abbas Mah˛mud al-˛Aqqad, Khalid Muh˛ammad Khalid and M. Kamil H˛usayn. In the 1950s and 1960s, these authors used the notion of d˛amr to express the inward dimension of Islamic ethics. As Islamic humanists, they also used it to express what Muhammad and Jesus, Muslims and Christians, may 'know together' in the field of ethics. The modern Egyptian material is related to some observations on the semantic history of d˛amr, and a discussion of the conceptual history of conscience in Christian tradition and European philosophy. The article proposes that a constitutive element in the notion of conscience is the tension between 'knowing by oneself' and 'knowing with others'. In a broader perspective, the article discusses conscience as a globalized concept, and its importance for a Christian-Muslim dialogue which respects the difference of the Other. |
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| ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
| Contains: | In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410305271 |