Hadith and Ethics through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity

The book under review discusses the link between Hadith and ethics in view of the dearth of treatments in contemporary scholarship of this topic . Thus, it is an attempt to situate Hadith-based ethics as a sub-discipline of Islamic ethics and fills in a gap in scholarship by means of an interdisciplinary approach.

The publication of this book follows from a seminar convened in 2019 by the editor Mutaz al-Khatib on the theme of “Hadith and Ethics: Concepts, Approaches and Theoretical Foundations .” The volume consists of twelve chapters that address the interplay of Hadith and ethics and contributes to examining Hadith-based ethics. The chapters cover five main aspects related to Hadith and ethics: (1) a theoretical foundation for Hadith-based ethics; (2) virtue ethics; (3) moral concepts; (4) Hadith related sub-disciplines; and (5) foundational ḥadīths on ethics. These five sections offer various approaches to studying ethics in Hadith works . Chapters 1-5 focus on establishing an overarching framework to scriptural ethics . Chapter 2 argues that Hadith- based ethics initiated an epistemological shift in the understanding of adab.