Abdulaziz Sachedina
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdulaziz Sachedina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdulaziz |
| FAMILY NAME | Sachedina |
| SIGNATURE | SACHEDINA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
The discipline of religious ethics is a relatively recent development in Islamic juridical studies. Although Muslim scholars have spoken about Aristotelian virtue ethics and produced important studies on ‘refinement of human character’, ethics as moral reasoning to guide judicial rulings on controversial issues like human cloning or preservation of fertilized ova for future implantation or donation has yet to be worked out conceptually. Ayman Sha…
Religious Perspectives on Human Suffering: Implications for Medicine and Bioethics
Islam and Business Ethics
Islam, the third and last of the Abrahamic religions to emerge, literally means “submission to God's will.” It was proclaimed by Muhammad (born 570 CE), the Prophet of Islam and the founder of Islamic public order, in the seventh century CE in Mecca, Arabia. Mecca was the most important trading center of western and central Arabia. Meccans played a dominant role in the creation of a culture that developed and nurtured a socioeconomic system based…
Continuing the Conversation About Comparative Ethics
This essay clarifies my stance on the distinctive facets of C hristianity as a sole paradigm for a liberal interpretation of I slam in the area of human rights. It attempts to demonstrate the limits of applying a comparative ethics methodology without a firm grounding in historical studies that reveal the contextual aspects of the debate whether any religion, including I slam, is incapable of providing cultural legitimacy to the secular U niversa…
Do Not Despair of God's Mercy: Reflections on the Divine Mercy in Times of Tragedy
The article undertakes to reflect on the events of 9/11 through a prism of critical self-introspection. It takes the reader through a personal journey of a Muslim struggling to come to terms with the tragedy of 9/11 after ten years and to raise serious questions about criminal violence committed by a group of terrorists in the name of Islam and its teachings on jihad
Advancing Religious Pluralism in Islam
Pluralism in the context of religion suggests both diversity of interpretation of the foundational sources of that tradition and relativity implied in such plurality of hermeneutics. At this time, a number of Muslim scholars writing from traditional centers of Islamic learning in the Middle East are resisting the implications of pluralistic discourse on religion. There is a deep-seated fear of secularly inspired relativism about religious truth t…
Decorate the Dungeon: A Dialogue in Place of an Introduction
In the place of an introduction to part 5 of the Common Knowledge symposium on forms of quietism, the journal's editor and one of its longtime columnists discuss, in dialogue format, the case of Thomas More. Could he have evaded martyrdom at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell? One discussant argues that More could not have done so without contemptibly abandoning his principles and surrendering fully to despotism. The other discussant dis…
Prudential Concealment in Shi`ite Islam
The paper undertakes to investigate the Shī`ī practice of prudential concealment (taqīya) as a source of both quietism and political activism. The practice functioned as a strategy of survival for the Shī `ī minority living under hostile Sunni regimes. Although Sunni ulema criticized the practice as dissimulation and, hence, morally wrong, ironically they too adopted the strategy when encountering autocratic and oppressive Sunni regimes that suff…
Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights
Whether Islam is compatible with human rights in general, and with the Declaration of Human Rights in particular, has been both a Muslim issue and a concern of the international community. Muslim rulers, Western analysts and policymakers, and Muslim extremists as well as conservative Muslims, have often agreed for diverse reasons that Islam and human rights cannot co-exist. This book argues for the essential compatibility of Islam and human right…
The Qur'ān and other religions
The role of religion in building bridges between communities is under greater scrutiny today than it was in the 1970s and 1980s. In the present period, religion has assumed a critical responsibility in defining the guidelines for life in a civil society in which a modern notion of inclusive citizenry is at odds with a community of the faithful defined as religiously exclusive. Monotheistic traditions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam are notor…
The Role of Islam in the Public Square: Guidance or Governance?
The Role of Islam in the Public Square tackles the critical role of religion in the development of democratic institutions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Constitutional debates, Abdulaziz Sachedina asserts, have yet to address the role of religious convictions alongside their citizens's basic freedoms and rights. Sachedina argues that the way in which religious values are defined in Afghanistan and Iraq remains a major stumbling block, and that an incl…
The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism
This text is tackling the most significant issues facing Muslims today. As Islam and Muslims enter the 21st century it is necessary to re-open the doors of religious interpretation to re-examine and correct false interpretation.
Jihad: The Origins of Holy War in Islam. Reuven Firestone
The Prolegomena to the Qurʾan [Bayān fi tafsīr al-Qurʾān]
The Just Ruler in Shi'ite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence
The Islamic regime that came to power after the 1978-79 Iranian revolution justified the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Shi’ite imams in general, on the basis of the doctrine that the Islamic jurist is best suited to rule with justice in an Islamic country. Arguing that this concept has no apparent parallel in Sunni Islam, this study explores its origins in the Sunni/Shi’ite schism, which took place after the death of the Prophet, and tr…
Islamic theology of Christian‐Muslim relations
As Islam becomes an important source for re‐assessing modern international order it needs to engage in a dialogue with its normative tradition to retrieve a relevant theology for the twenty‐first century. This paper undertakes that intellectual dialogue to evaluate the available concepts and ideas within the Islamic tradition and assess them critically to show whether they can become substantial resources for Christian‐Muslim relations in the twe…
Political implications of the Islamic notion of ‘supersession’ as reflected in Islamic jurisprudence
The paper undertakes to investigate the ways in which the dominant Muslim community regulated legal‐ethical relations with its non‐Muslim minorities. The ideological underpinnings of the Islamic legal tradition in the area of jihad provided legitimacy for the Muslim political domination of the lands and peoples beyond the original boundaries of Islam. The central argument of the paper is that Muslim jurists were involved in the routinization of t…
Symposium on Muslims in Europe: The Institute for Comparative Social Research and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Rajab 3-5; 1412/ February 6-8, 1992
The question of a Muslim minority in the Western context has become animportant one in view of some h-and-hysteria literatu~th at continues to depictthis minority as a threat to Western liberal values and sociopolitical systems.The conference papers were structured around a basic theme of “Muslims, Islam,and Diaspora,” which reveals the difficulty of European scholars as well asgovernment officials in accurately conceptualizing the Muslim experie…
The Just Ruler or the Guardian Jurist: An Attempt to Link Two Different Shiʿite Concepts
Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism. Said Amir Arjomand
Islamic Ethics: Concept and Prospect
The paper is incomplete in its present form. Its discussion about Islamic Ethicsis superficial. Neither the complexity of theological ethics nor are philosophicaland juridical ethics admitted anywhere. Moreover, it does not evaluate thepresent status of works on ethics (e.g., Isma'il al Faruqi's contribution) andthe scholarship produced by academics like Hourani (The Ethics of 'Abd Al-Jabbar).The paper must be expanded with proper discussion abou…
Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900 . Randall L. Pouwels
A Shiʾite Anthology
Satan's Tragedy and Redemption: Iblis in Sufi Psychology . Peter J. Awn
Islamic Messianism: The Idea of the Mahdi in Twelver Shiʿism
Al-Khums: The Fifth in the Imāmī Shīʿī Legal System
Advancing Religious Pluralism in Islam
Pluralism in the context of religion suggests both diversity of interpretation of the foundational sources of that tradition and relativity implied in such plurality of hermeneutics. At this time, a number of Muslim scholars writing from traditional centers of Islamic learning in the Middle East are resisting the implications of pluralistic discourse on religion. There is a deep-seated fear of secularly inspired relativism about religious truth t…
Prudential Concealment in Shi`ite Islam
The paper undertakes to investigate the Shī`ī practice of prudential concealment (taqīya) as a source of both quietism and political activism. The practice functioned as a strategy of survival for the Shī `ī minority living under hostile Sunni regimes. Although Sunni ulema criticized the practice as dissimulation and, hence, morally wrong, ironically they too adopted the strategy when encountering autocratic and oppressive Sunni regimes that suff…
Islamic theology of Christian‐Muslim relations
As Islam becomes an important source for re‐assessing modern international order it needs to engage in a dialogue with its normative tradition to retrieve a relevant theology for the twenty‐first century. This paper undertakes that intellectual dialogue to evaluate the available concepts and ideas within the Islamic tradition and assess them critically to show whether they can become substantial resources for Christian‐Muslim relations in the twe…
A Treatise on the Occultation of the Twelfth Imamite Imam
A Treatise on the Occultation of the Twelfth Imamite Imam
Al-Khums: The Fifth in the Imāmī Shīʿī Legal System
Islamic Messianism: The Idea of the Mahdi in Twelver Shiʿism
Satan's Tragedy and Redemption: Iblis in Sufi Psychology . Peter J. Awn
A Shiʾite Anthology
Islamic Ethics: Concept and Prospect
The paper is incomplete in its present form. Its discussion about Islamic Ethicsis superficial. Neither the complexity of theological ethics nor are philosophicaland juridical ethics admitted anywhere. Moreover, it does not evaluate thepresent status of works on ethics (e.g., Isma'il al Faruqi's contribution) andthe scholarship produced by academics like Hourani (The Ethics of 'Abd Al-Jabbar).The paper must be expanded with proper discussion abou…
Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900 . Randall L. Pouwels
Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism. Said Amir Arjomand
The Just Ruler or the Guardian Jurist: An Attempt to Link Two Different Shiʿite Concepts
Symposium on Muslims in Europe: The Institute for Comparative Social Research and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Rajab 3-5; 1412/ February 6-8, 1992
The question of a Muslim minority in the Western context has become animportant one in view of some h-and-hysteria literatu~th at continues to depictthis minority as a threat to Western liberal values and sociopolitical systems.The conference papers were structured around a basic theme of “Muslims, Islam,and Diaspora,” which reveals the difficulty of European scholars as well asgovernment officials in accurately conceptualizing the Muslim experie…
Political implications of the Islamic notion of ‘supersession’ as reflected in Islamic jurisprudence
The paper undertakes to investigate the ways in which the dominant Muslim community regulated legal‐ethical relations with its non‐Muslim minorities. The ideological underpinnings of the Islamic legal tradition in the area of jihad provided legitimacy for the Muslim political domination of the lands and peoples beyond the original boundaries of Islam. The central argument of the paper is that Muslim jurists were involved in the routinization of t…
Islamic theology of Christian‐Muslim relations
As Islam becomes an important source for re‐assessing modern international order it needs to engage in a dialogue with its normative tradition to retrieve a relevant theology for the twenty‐first century. This paper undertakes that intellectual dialogue to evaluate the available concepts and ideas within the Islamic tradition and assess them critically to show whether they can become substantial resources for Christian‐Muslim relations in the twe…
The Just Ruler in Shi'ite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence
The Islamic regime that came to power after the 1978-79 Iranian revolution justified the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Shi’ite imams in general, on the basis of the doctrine that the Islamic jurist is best suited to rule with justice in an Islamic country. Arguing that this concept has no apparent parallel in Sunni Islam, this study explores its origins in the Sunni/Shi’ite schism, which took place after the death of the Prophet, and tr…
The Prolegomena to the Qurʾan [Bayān fi tafsīr al-Qurʾān]
The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism
This text is tackling the most significant issues facing Muslims today. As Islam and Muslims enter the 21st century it is necessary to re-open the doors of religious interpretation to re-examine and correct false interpretation.
Jihad: The Origins of Holy War in Islam. Reuven Firestone
The Role of Islam in the Public Square: Guidance or Governance?
The Role of Islam in the Public Square tackles the critical role of religion in the development of democratic institutions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Constitutional debates, Abdulaziz Sachedina asserts, have yet to address the role of religious convictions alongside their citizens's basic freedoms and rights. Sachedina argues that the way in which religious values are defined in Afghanistan and Iraq remains a major stumbling block, and that an incl…
The Qur'ān and other religions
The role of religion in building bridges between communities is under greater scrutiny today than it was in the 1970s and 1980s. In the present period, religion has assumed a critical responsibility in defining the guidelines for life in a civil society in which a modern notion of inclusive citizenry is at odds with a community of the faithful defined as religiously exclusive. Monotheistic traditions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam are notor…
Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights
Whether Islam is compatible with human rights in general, and with the Declaration of Human Rights in particular, has been both a Muslim issue and a concern of the international community. Muslim rulers, Western analysts and policymakers, and Muslim extremists as well as conservative Muslims, have often agreed for diverse reasons that Islam and human rights cannot co-exist. This book argues for the essential compatibility of Islam and human right…
Advancing Religious Pluralism in Islam
Pluralism in the context of religion suggests both diversity of interpretation of the foundational sources of that tradition and relativity implied in such plurality of hermeneutics. At this time, a number of Muslim scholars writing from traditional centers of Islamic learning in the Middle East are resisting the implications of pluralistic discourse on religion. There is a deep-seated fear of secularly inspired relativism about religious truth t…
Decorate the Dungeon: A Dialogue in Place of an Introduction
In the place of an introduction to part 5 of the Common Knowledge symposium on forms of quietism, the journal's editor and one of its longtime columnists discuss, in dialogue format, the case of Thomas More. Could he have evaded martyrdom at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell? One discussant argues that More could not have done so without contemptibly abandoning his principles and surrendering fully to despotism. The other discussant dis…
Prudential Concealment in Shi`ite Islam
The paper undertakes to investigate the Shī`ī practice of prudential concealment (taqīya) as a source of both quietism and political activism. The practice functioned as a strategy of survival for the Shī `ī minority living under hostile Sunni regimes. Although Sunni ulema criticized the practice as dissimulation and, hence, morally wrong, ironically they too adopted the strategy when encountering autocratic and oppressive Sunni regimes that suff…
Do Not Despair of God's Mercy: Reflections on the Divine Mercy in Times of Tragedy
The article undertakes to reflect on the events of 9/11 through a prism of critical self-introspection. It takes the reader through a personal journey of a Muslim struggling to come to terms with the tragedy of 9/11 after ten years and to raise serious questions about criminal violence committed by a group of terrorists in the name of Islam and its teachings on jihad
Islam and Business Ethics
Islam, the third and last of the Abrahamic religions to emerge, literally means “submission to God's will.” It was proclaimed by Muhammad (born 570 CE), the Prophet of Islam and the founder of Islamic public order, in the seventh century CE in Mecca, Arabia. Mecca was the most important trading center of western and central Arabia. Meccans played a dominant role in the creation of a culture that developed and nurtured a socioeconomic system based…
Continuing the Conversation About Comparative Ethics
This essay clarifies my stance on the distinctive facets of C hristianity as a sole paradigm for a liberal interpretation of I slam in the area of human rights. It attempts to demonstrate the limits of applying a comparative ethics methodology without a firm grounding in historical studies that reveal the contextual aspects of the debate whether any religion, including I slam, is incapable of providing cultural legitimacy to the secular U niversa…
Philosophy (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Islamic Studies and History (21 works) · Islam (19 works) · Theology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Religious studies (11 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (9 works)