عنوان

Gendered morality: Masculinity, marriage, and social relations in premodern Islamic ethics

Number

TL48592

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Gendered morality: Masculinity, marriage, and social relations in premodern Islamic ethics

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Zahra M. Shoaib Ayubi

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Ernst, Carl W.; Hammer, Juliane

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

334

Text of Note

Committee members: Ali, Kecia; Safi, Omid; Styers, Randall

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-38994-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Religious Studies

Body granting the degree

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Text preceding or following the note

2015

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This dissertation analyzes gender constructions and notions of moral gender relations in three widely influential medieval Persian treatises of Islamic ethics (akhlaq), Kimiya-i Sa`adat by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111), Akhlaq-i Nasiri by Nasir-ad Din Tusi (d. 1274), and Akhlaq-i Jalal i by Jalal ad-Din Davani (d. 1502). In examining these prescriptive works that instruct Muslims on how to live ethical lives, the main question I ask is how have medieval Muslim ethicists constructed morally guided notions of masculinity, femininity, and marriage and male homosocial relations. I argue that these texts reveal a metaphysical tension between an ethical principle that all human selves (nafses) are created equal and a hierarchical organization of humanity based on intellect and spirituality, in which some men are above others based on ethical and rational capacity and all men are above women. The ethicists define ultimate masculinity in terms of power, intellectual potential, and ethical comportment in the domestic realm as well as in homosocial structures of court, civic, and community life. They define women as instrumental to men's ethical activities since they view women themselves as lacking full rationality and limited by their biological functions.

Religion; Islamic Studies; Gender studies

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Gender and islamic philosophy;Gender in islamic ethics;Islam and gender;Islamic ethics;Islamic masculinity;Women and islam

Mabra, Joshua Lee

Ernst, Carl W.; Hammer, Juliane

Subdivision

Religious Studies

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Call Number

1756277664; 3745904

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[Thesis]

276903

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