Liberty and Islam
ABSTRACT
This colloquium brought together Muslims and non-Muslims interested in discussing the problem of human liberty both in and out of an Islamic context. Some of the general questions the conference addressed were: How have Western and Muslim thinkers approached the problem of human liberty? To what extent are their approaches similar? What do these similarities and differences tell us about the compatibility of the liberal idea of freedom with Islam?
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
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVIII-Essays on Politics and Society Part I. Chapter: ON LIBERTY 1859. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1977.http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/233/16550 (accessed 2009-09-29).
Kurzman, Charles, eds. Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Barry, Norman, "Civil Society, Religion, and Islam." in Islam, Civil Society, and Market Economy, Edited by Atilla Yayla, 19-36. Ankara: Liberte Books, 1999.
Berlin, Isaiah. Four Essays on Liberty. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Constant, Benjamin. Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments. Edited by Etienne Hofmann. Translated by Dennis O'Keeffe. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2003.
Khaldûn, Ibn. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Translated by Franz Rosenthal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education. Chapter: THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN 1869. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1984.http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/255/21684 (accessed 2009-09-29).
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat. The Spirit of Laws. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002.
Stefan Voigt. "Islam and the Institutions of a Free Society." Independent Review 10, no. 1 (Summer 2005): 59-82.