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" Gendered morality: Masculinity, marriage, and social relations in premodern Islamic ethics "
Zahra M. Shoaib Ayubi
Ernst, Carl W.; Hammer, Juliane
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803789
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TL48592
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1756277664; 3745904
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Mabra, Joshua Lee
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Gendered morality: Masculinity, marriage, and social relations in premodern Islamic ethics\ Zahra M. Shoaib AyubiErnst, Carl W.; Hammer, Juliane
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Religious Studies
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2015
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334
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Committee members: Ali, Kecia; Safi, Omid; Styers, Randall
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-38994-3
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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 (<i>akhlaq</i>), <i>Kimiya-i</i> <i> Sa`adat</i> by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111), <i>Akhlaq-i Nasiri</i> by Nasir-ad Din Tusi (d. 1274), and <i>Akhlaq-i Jalal </i>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 (<i>nafses</i>) 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.
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Religion; Islamic Studies; Gender studies
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Gender and islamic philosophy;Gender in islamic ethics;Islam and gender;Islamic ethics;Islamic masculinity;Women and islam
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Ernst, Carl W.; Hammer, Juliane
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Religious StudiesThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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