Book Summary
In Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an Toshihiko Izutsu analyzes the guiding spirit of the Islamic moral code, the basic ethical relationship of man to God. Izutsu asserts that, according to the Qur'anic conception, God is of an ethical nature and acts upon man in an ethical way. The resulting implications for man are enormous, requiring devotion not merely to God but to living one's life ethically. Izutsu shows that for the Qur'an our ethical response to God's actions is religion itself; it is at the same time both ethics and religion. Izutsu explores these themes by employing ethnolinguistics, a theory of the interrelations between linguistic cultural patterns, to analyses the semantic structure of major concepts in the Quar'an. Originally published in 1959 as The Structure of the Ethical Terms in the Koran and revised under the current title in 1966, this 2002 reprint makes this classic work of Islamic studies once again available.
Book Details
| Book Name | Ethico-Religious Concepts In The Qur'an |
| Author | Toshihiko Izutsu, Charles J. Adams |
| Publisher | Mcgill-queen's University Press (Jul 2002) |
| ISBN | 9780773524279 |
| Pages | 292 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 985 |
