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Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics

Edited by Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati 2019
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Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and teaching on Islamic and comparative peace studies, this book offers a friendship-related academic framework that examines shared moral concepts, philosophical paradigms, and political experiences that can develop and expand multidisciplinary conversations between the Christian West and the Muslim East. By advancing multicultural and interreligious discourses on friendship, this book helps promote actual friendships among diverse cultures and peoples.

This is not a monologue. It provides a model of conversations among scholars and political actors who come from diverse international and interreligious backgrounds. The word "Islamic" should not mislead the reader to suspect that this edited volume delves only into religious discourses. Rather, it provides a forum for conversations within and between religious and philosophical perspectives. It sparks friendship conversations thematically and through disciplinary and cultural diversity. The result of the work of many prominent international scholars and diplomats over many years, it conveys at least one message clearly: friendship matters for not only our happiness but also for our survival.

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  • 978-0-472-13157-0 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-12604-0 (ebook)
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  • Political Science:Public Policy
  • Political Science:Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies
  • Political Science:International Relations
  • Islamic Studies
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Friendship in Primary Sources: Definitions, Epistemological Realms, and Conceptual Frameworks
    • 1. Friendship in Arabic: Its Synonyms, Etymologies, and Transformations
    • 2. Treatment of Friends
    • 3. Friendship and Love in Islamic Spirituality
    • 4. Aristotle and Iranian Ethicists: Friendship as a Moral and a Political Paradigm
    • 5. The Mystery of Friendship: A View from Islam
    • 6. Three Dimensions of Friendship: A Qur’ānic Perspective
  • Part 2. Friendship within and between Religions, Nations, and Civilizations
    • 7. Friendship in Pre-Islamic Iranian Writings
    • 8. On Friendship
    • 9. Friendship in Confucian Islam
    • 10. Friendship between Islamic and Christian Civilizations
    • 11. Friendship in the Muslim World
    • 12. Friendship between Religions and Cultures: The Foundation for Friendship between Civilizations
    • 13. Friendship in International Relations
  • Part 3. Friendship as an Agent of a Paradigm Shift in Human Relations
    • 14. Will to Friendship: Rūmī’s Perspective
    • 15. Friends without Borders: A Case Study
    • 16. Global Loneliness and the State of Human Mental Health: How Religion Can Promote Friendship as a Paradigm of Peace in Postmodernity
    • Epilogue: A Friendship Manifesto
  • Appendix: A Sample Friendship Resolution
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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The semantic tree of friendship with one stem and three branches  is a figure showing how a cluster of seventeen friendship-related Arabic words (words synonymous to friendship) are situated in relations to each other's semantic value and meaning common-grounds. The stem of the tree-figure shows six Arabic words in English transliteration with three branches of other closely related words which, together, create three realms of friendship-related meanings.

The Semantic Tree of Friendship

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Fig. 1. The Semantic Tree of Friendship. (© A. Z. Obiedat.)

This image is the text of a Friendship Proclamation Issued by Oberlin City Council and delivered every year by Oberlin Mayor or city Manager to an annual Friendship Festival at Oberlin College. Identical Friendship Proclamations have been continuously adopted by the Oberlin City Council since 2010. The Proclamation consists of six preambular paragraphs reflecting on how friendship transcends ethnic, religious, political and cultural borders and therefore is valued universally. The operative paragraph of the proclamation declares support for an annual National American Friendship Day.

Proclamation: American National Friendship Day

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