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Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Isla…

Paperback • 2010

Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Isla…

By Michael Cook

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About the book

What kind of duty do we have to try to stop other people doing wrong? The question is intelligible in just about any culture, but few of them seek to answer it in a rigorous fashion. The most striking exception is found in the Islamic tradition, where ‘commanding right’ and ‘forbidding wrong’ is a central moral tenet already mentioned in the Koran. As an historian of Islam whose research has ranged widely over space and time, Michael Cook is well placed to interpret this complex subject. His boo...Show more

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