Islam: The Concept of Religion and the Foundation of Ethics and Morality

Islam: The Concept of Religion and the Foundation of Ethics and MoralityOriginally a lecture delivered at the 1976 International Islamic Conference in London, this monograph offers a radically different account of religion from the Islamic viewpoint. The author eloquently shows that the concept couched in the Arabic term din is not the same as the word "religion" as understood throughtout Western religious history. By means of a careful semantic analysis, al Attas takes up the notion "din" as a unifying theme, connecting

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