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Call for Publications Theme: Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Explorations Publication: Journal of Islamic Ethics (JIE) Date: Special Issue Deadline: 5.2.2018 __________________________________________________ The Journal of Islamic Ethics (JIE) – sponsored by the Research Center of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) in Doha (Qatar), which is affiliated to the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and published by Brill – launches a Call for Papers that takes the under-researched Trusteeship Paradigm as a background to revisit the question of ethics in Islamic thought. Three major lines of work will be addressed: 1) the link Trusteeship Paradigm builds with classical Islamic scholarship; 2) the engagement of Trusteeship Paradigm with contemporary Islamic scholarship; 3) Trusteeship Paradigm’s engagement with and critique of Euro-American modernity, its ethical theories, and Trusteeship permeation and application to various sciences. This comprehensive approach aims at understanding as well as contextualizing the propositions of this modern Islamic ethical theory, and how it tackles various sub-topics and converses with other disciplines inside and outside Islamic scholarship. This Call for Paper-Seminar invites scholars and academics expert in or familiar with the arguments of Trusteeship Paradim of ethics to submit a paper in which they critically deal with how one of the below outlined topics is examined by this paradigm, and how it differs, or not, from the way it has been studied by other Islamic and non-Islamic theories of ethics. The questions corresponding to each topic are not exclusive: 1) Ethics and/in the Quran and Sunna: how different is ethics in TP from classical exegeses and hadith scholarship? Were classical interpretations of the Quran and Sunna not ethical enough? Or, ethics are contextual and have to adapt to the modern context? 2) Classical Sharia Rights Preservation and the Place of Ethics: how does TP re-interpret and re-arrange the order of sharia classical five/six rights (al-kulliyat al-khams)? How does TP critique of modern interpretations of sharia differ from other Islamic modern theories? 3) Kalam theology and philosophical ethics: how is TP different from classical kalam theology and classical philosophical theories of ethics? How is reason in TP different from its counterpart in classical kalam theology? 4) Islamic legal theories and the non-/centrality of ethics: how tenable and factual is the claim of TP that Islamic legal theories centralized law (“fiqh”) instead of ethics? 5) Religion, ethics and politics: how does TP propose to contribute to politics in Muslim majority societies while centralizing ethics? Are these ethics public or private, or both? What is the dividing line between the two spheres (private and public) in politics? How does TP critiques secular and religious extremisms? 6) The question of science and practice (Praxis): what examples does TP take to exemplify for the unethical tendencies in modern science? What ethics does TP centralize in such an argument? Can ethics be neutral 7) Bioethics and environment: how far can TP provide ethical input to debates in the exact sciences? How different are “practical ethics” of TP different from the “universal ethics” that have guided the sciences so far? 8) Psychoanalysis and the secularization of ethics: How does TP approach “Western psychoanalysis”? How is psychoanalysis seen as the highest stage of atheist secularization and overcoming of ethics in TP? 9) The media and the question of ethics: what might be the limits of ethics in public transmission of knowledge through the means of media? Where does the private and public lie 10) Violence, ethics, and metaphysics: How does TP interpret the ontological moment of ethical creation from the birth of violence? How does IP interpret 11) Entangled dialogue, pluralism and moral relativism: how can TP as an ethical theory based on a particular religious worldview develop a universal view of dialogue that overcomes particularism without falling in relativism? How does TP approach plural thinking in a cosmopolitan context? How is TP similar to/different from plural epistemologies developing in modern multicultural societies? Selection of Papers Interested scholars and academics are invited to send: - An abstract (300-500 words) outlining the major ideas and methodology of the paper; - A short biography (500 words) outlining the academic background, main research interests, and major publications. - Authors of accepted abstracts will be afterwards invited to submit their full papers (between 7 000 and 10 000 words). Please note the following: - Abstracts-papers are expected to analytically and comparatively engage with Trusteeship Paradigm as an Islamic theory of ethics by linking it with other theories of ethics inside the domain of Islamic scholarship, and also with scholarship outside this domain and tradition; - Abstracts-papers that do study either Islamic ethics or Trusteeship Paradigm independently, without examining their points of convergence/divergence will not be considered; - General papers that uncritically introduce Trusteeship Paradigm will not be considered. Seminar Authors of a limited number of accepted leading papers will be invited to participate in a seminar on the topic under study. Their accommodation and travel expenses will be covered by CILE. Publication The seminar papers as well as the rest of accepted papers will be published as a thematic in the peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Ethics or as an edited volume in the book-series Studies in Islamic Ethics (Brill). The published proceedings will be available via Open Access for wider readership. Language Submissions of abstracts and papers can be in English or/and Arabic. The seminar will be conducted in these two languages as well. Accepted papers will be translated by the publishers into Arabic/English. Deadlines - February 5, 2018: Deadline for receiving abstracts and bios. - February 20, 2018: Notifying authors of accepted abstracts to submit their full papers. - July 15, 2018: Deadline for submitting full papers. - August 15, 2018: Notifying authors of accepted papers; accepted papers will be sent for translation into Arabic/English. - October 14-16, 2018: Organizing the seminar in CILE, Doha, Qatar. - November 15, 2018: Submitting the revised papers for peer-reviewing and editing to the Journal of Islamic Ethics or the book series of Islamic Ethics, Brill. Contact Submissions should be sent to: bhad...@hbku.edu.qa For any inquiries regarding this Call for Papers, please contact Dr Mohammed Hashas, LUISS University of Rome, at: mhas...@luiss.it , and Dr Mutaz al-Khatib, CILE-Hamad Bin Khalifa University, at: malkha...@hbku.edu.qa For inquiries about the Journal of Islamic Ethics, please contact: j...@brill.com About the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE): CILE aims to contribute to the reform and renew the Islamic thought by developing a contemporary vision guided by the fundamental principles of the Holy Qur’an, Sunnah and the higher objectives of Islamic Shariah. For more information, please contact: off...@cilecenter.org Contact: Dr Mohammed Hashas, Research Fellow LUISS Guido Carli University Rome, Italy Email: mhas...@luiss.it Web: https://www.cilecenter.org/en/news/call-for-papers-islamic-ethics-and-the-trusteeship-paradigm-interdisciplinary-explorations/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
