Meaningfulness and Responsibility in Islamic Discourse

Risk and Responsibility In the GMO Discourse

Ethics and responsibility in journalism: An Islamic perspective

This article presents a summary of existing codes of media ethics and analyzes their impact on mass media practices. It then attempts to develop an Islamic perspective of mass media ethics by focusing on the moral guidelines provided by Quran and the tradition of Prophet Muhammad (the Sunnah). The paper also examines the issues, problems, and challenges in operationalizing these guidelines into...

Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Islamic Philosophy

According to a common view among Muslim philosophers, a moral agent has free will if and only if she is able to do an action when she wants to and is able to avoid it when she wants otherwise. Implicit in this view is the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP). On the other hand, according to this view, free will is dependent on requirements such as conception, judgement, tendency, decisi...

Identity, discourse and policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Islamic world

Policy thinkers have used different methods to study the factors affecting the policy environment in Iran and the Islamic world. The complexity of this environment, different dimensions of political issues, different conditions and factors affecting the studied variables of policy in different societies of the Islamic world require that political analysts be equipped with appropriate methodolog...

The Islam in Islamic art history: secularism and public discourse

Muslim art can also have a special significance for the Muslim world of today. Since this is its one cultural achievement widely accepted and admired by the West, a rededication to it can compensate the East to a certain degree for its scientific and technological retardation, something which neither the oil fields nor strategic location can achieve. Be that as it may, there has been and still ...