Liberty as an Islamic Value
ABSTRACT
Aimed mostly at public intellectuals and journalists, this colloquium focused on the question of individual liberty both within and outside of an Islamic context.
READING LIST
From Liberty Fund
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (vol. 1)
by
By Adam Smith
Edited by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner
William B. Todd, Textual Editor
First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith’s Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade, and other government policies that…
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (vol. 2)
by
By Adam Smith
Edited by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner
William B. Todd, Textual Editor
First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith’s Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade, and other government policies that…
Additional Readings
Kurzman, Charles, eds. Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
“Index of Economic Freedom.” Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/index/heatmap (May 9, 2012).
Ahmad, Imad-ad-Dean, “Islam, Commerce, and Business Ethics” In Business and Religion: A Clash of Civilizations?, edited by Nicholas Capaldi, 200-214. Salem: M & M Scrivener Press, 2005.
al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad. On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s Faysal al-Tafriqa. Translated by Sherman A. Jackson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
al-Hibri, Azizah Y. “Islamic Constitutionalism and the Concept of Democracy.” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 24, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 1-27.
Barry, Norman, "Civil Society, Religion, and Islam." in Islam, Civil Society, and Market Economy, Edited by Atilla Yayla, 19-36. Ankara: Liberte Books, 1999.
Fradkin, Hillel, “Epilogue: Does Democracy Need Religion?” In World Religions and Democracy, edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Philip J. Costopoulos, 245-252. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Islahi, Abdul Azim. Economic Concepts of Ibn Taymiyah. Leicester, United Kingdom: The Islamic Foundation, 2007.
Khaldûn, Ibn. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Translated by Franz Rosenthal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Kuran, Timur. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Locke, John. A Letter Concerning Toleration. Translated by William Popple. Compiled by William Benton. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988.
Mill, John Stuart, “On Liberty” In On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1879. 1-204. http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/347 (accessed from the Online Library of Liberty).
Sahin, Bican. “Toleration, Political Liberalism, and Peaceful Coexistence in the Muslim World.” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 24, no. 1 (2006): 1-24.