Agency, Rationality, Morality: The Qur’anic View of Man (By MONA M. ABUL- FADL
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Mona M. Abul-Fadl (1945-2008) had a mind of dazzling brilliance, making
her one of the pioneering female Muslim scholars of her generation and
a keen observer of the rapid devolution of society divorced from spiritual
tradition in the modern context. In this powerful work, she provides a
reading of the Qur’anic view of man as insān against a background of
the preoccupations of modernity. Her emphasis is on rationality, freedom
and morality, and the goal is the reintegration of man and the recovery
of community through a reconciliation of self and the rediscovery of the
essential meaning of divine guidance in so far as it relates to human life
in this world. Taking the Qur’an as a divine discourse of many tiers and
depths, the work singles out aspects of its discourse on creation. Abul-
Fadl takes this discourse as a pivot for developing a view of moral man
and moral community, with the focus remaining on the former.
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