Ethics in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Ethics in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Adamson, Peter

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061540
Doc. NO	:	ALei1937
Main Entry	:	Adamson, Peter
Title & Author	:	Ethics in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Adamson, Peter
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(3,980 words)
Abstract	:	The treatment of ethics in philosophy in the Islamic world is best represented by several treatises on the subject of good and bad character traits (akhlāq). These works form a remarkably stable genre; similar ideas were put forward, over centuries and across a vast area, by authors of all three major Abrahamic faiths. This is partly to be explained by the Hellenic sources on which these authors draw. Especially significant were Aristotle (d. 322 B.C.E.) and Galen (d. c. 216 CE). According to Ibn al-Nadīm (d. c.
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1937.pdf