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Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations: Modern Egyptian Thinkers of Al-Damir » (1ST)

Book cover image of Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations: Modern Egyptian Thinkers of Al-Damir by O. Leirvik

Authors: O. Leirvik
ISBN-13: 9780415385664, ISBN-10: 0415385660
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2006
Edition: 1ST

Author Biography: O. Leirvik

Book Synopsis

Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations puts forward a discussion of how the notion of conscience may unite Muslim and Christians across religious divides, as well as examining the relation between selfhood and otherness in interfaith dialogue. The author explores how the notion of conscience has been dealt with by modern Egyptian authors and discusses their works in light of how Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt have evolved during the modern period.

1	Horizon and focus	3
2	Terms, concepts and methods	9
3	The self and the other in Christian and European discourses of conscience	25
4	Islamic ethics : knowing with whom?	39
5	Conscience in Arabic : the semantics of damir	67
6	The notions of al-damir and wijdan in Egyptian reformers and writers	81
7	'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad (1889-1964) : ethico-religious internalisation, human conscience and Islamic apologetics	90
8	Khalid Muhammad Khalid (1920-96) : conscience, human authenticity and Islamic democracy	125
9	M. Kamil Husayn (1901-77) : conscience as the law of inhibition and the voice of God	172
10	Christians and Muslims in Egypt : united or separated by modernity?	192
11	Conclusions to part IV	210
12	Wronging the self, wronging the other : conscience and ethics in modernity	217
13	Conscience in interreligious dialogue : telling the story of oneself as another	229
14	Knowing with God : face to face with the other?	242