Foreword	7
	Preface	12
	List of Surahs (Chapters) and Their English Translations in Brackets	17
	Abbreviations	21
	Contents	27
	Theme 1: Ethics, Islam and Education	29
	Chapter 1: Qura?nic Conceptual Framework of Ethics	32
	The Qura?n: Ethics and Ethos	33
	Ethics in Muslim Philosophy	38
	Qura?nic Ethics	42
	References	44
	Chapter 2: The Qur?n and the Espousal of Ethics	46
	What Is the Qur?n?	46
	Prophetic Stories	49
	Parables	55
	Eschatological Enunciations	57
	References	59
	Chapter 3: Qur?nic Conceptions of Being Muslim	61
	The Qur?n and Muslim	62
	Contemplating, Reasoning, Remembering, and Surrendering	64
	Islamic and Muslim	68
	References	72
	Chapter 4: Qur?nic Conceptions of Education	74
	What Does It Mean to Be Educated?	74
	On Coming to Enunciation through Education	78
	Allah as an Enunciation of Education	80
	References	87
	Theme 2: Participants in Muslim Education	89
	Reference	91
	Chapter 5: The Qur?n and Individual Autonomy	92
	How Did Allah Create Humankind?	93
	Why Did Allah Create Humankind?	96
	On an Ethics of Positive and Negative Autonomy	98
	References	106
	Chapter 6: Qur?nic Conceptions of Community	107
	On Understanding the Concept of Ummah	108
	On the ‘Best of Peoples’	111
	Ummatan Wasatan (Justly Balanced Ummah) as an Ethical Community	114
	On the Hospitality and Hostility (Hostipitality) of Ummah	117
	References	119
	Chapter 7: Qur?nic Conceptions of Being Human	120
	On Being Human	121
	The Secular Nature of Humankind	123
	The Transcendental Nature of Being Human	126
	Realising the Transcendent Through an Ethical Enactment of What It Means to Be Human	127
	References	131
	Chapter 8: Qur?nic Conceptions of Being Muslim, Mu’min, and Muh’sin	133
	Muslim, Mu’min, and Muh’sin	134
	Practices of Degrees of Faith	135
	On Ibn ‘Arab?’s ‘Perfect Man’ and the Pursuit of Ihs?n	138
	References	139
	Theme 3: Instances of Ethical Dimensions	140
	Chapter 9: Categories of Human Excellence	142
	Conceptions of Adab (Just Action)	142
	On Human Excellence	145
	Categories of Human Excellence	147
	References	148
	Chapter 10: Relationships among People	150
	Relationships as an Enactment of Humanity	150
	Relationships as an Ethical Enactment of Justice and Social Equilibrium	154
	References	158
	Chapter 11: Social and Societal Conflicts	159
	On a Spectrum of Dystopias	160
	An Ethical Enunciation of Muslim Education as a Response to Local and Global Dystopias	163
	References	166
	Chapter 12: Stereotypes, Marginalisation and Exclusion	167
	Stereotypes, Marginalisation and Exclusion Perpetrated by Islam	167
	Stereotypes, Marginalisation and Exclusion Perpetrated against Islam	170
	Muslim Education as an Ethical Response to Exclusion and Marginalisation	171
	References	172
	Erratum to: Ethical Dimensions of Muslim Education	174
	References	183
	Index	185