Counting Good and Bad Deeds under Military Rule: Islam and Divine Bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine)

Author(s): Emanuel Schäublin
Book Title: Rules and ethics. Perspectives from anthropology and history
Publisher(s): Manchester University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Place: Manchester, United Kingdom

This book chapter by CSS’ Emanuel Schäublin describes the challenges of a distinct aspect of ethical formalism, that of quantification, and the tension between calculation and the incalculable in many ethical traditions. It explores this tension in the context of Sunni Islam, where adhering to religious rules in one’s personal conduct is often assumed to gain one points in a divine system of bookkeeping.

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