Ethics form an Islamic Perspective

This essay titled ‘Ethics from Islamic Perspective’ includes morale and akhlaq. It intends to give awareness about the importance of ethics from an Islamic perspective. The essay is sufficient to give the reader a feel for its potential to encourage further research in the area of resolving ethical issues, specifically for those who are calling for universal ethical theories to avoid moral imperialism. The Islamic perspective of the ethical concept should be referred to based on the Holy Qur’an from the God and Ahadith of Prophet Muhammad. The ethical concept must be general and not too bias for others. The findings of this paper can be used as topics of discussion, it is because the Islamic Work Ethics has economic as well as moral/ akhlaq dimensions.

The Fallacy of Analogy and the Risk of Moral Imperialism: Israeli Literature and the Palestinian Other

This article discusses the role of analogy within the ethics of reading. It examines how Israeli literature uses analogies when reflecting on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Many literary texts that depict the Israeli–Palestinian conflict draw analogies between the Israeli Jewish people and the Palestinians, between specific individuals on both sides, or between historical traumas. These analogies are designed to bridge gaps and encourage empathetic reading. This article challenges this role of analogy by arguing that analogies may in fact paint an erroneous picture of symmetrical relations, strengthen victimhood that denies responsibility, and can often lead to “empty empathy.” Analogies may also create a willfully deceptive understanding of the other, while actually maintaining a narcissistic superior stance. Based on philosophical notions put forward by Emmanuel Levinas, this article suggests a different path to ethical understanding in which the literary text, while still enabling analogy, uses other rhetorical devices to create relationships that suspend it and reveal its imposture.