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Conventionally, Qurʾānic ethics is derived from the Qurʾān and Propheticḥadīth, (along with certain rules of application) to form norms of moral conduct—sharīʿah. This paper argues that a study of the termmaʿrūf, (meaning literally, “known”) which occurs in three contexts in the Qurʾān, suggests that the Qurʾān itself assumes that revelational knowledge is to be supplemented with conventional moral understandings of what is right and wrong.Aside from one set of usages that seem to mean “candor” in the making of commitments, the emphatic summons to “do themaʿrūf” does not stipulate what that “known” thing is. The implication is that one knows, from social conventions and moral intuitions extrinsic to revelation, what to do. It follows then that “Islamic ethics” ought to be composed of revelational sources, supplemented by the moral knowledge of Muslims at any given time and in any given place. |
