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The Virtues of the Good Muslim
Published in 2025 by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari in Venice, this monograph by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca’ Foscari University) is the augmented English translation of Le virtù del buon Musulmano, first published by Einaudi (Turin) in 2020.
The author explores the moral foundations of Islam through a wide range of religious literature in Arabic, from classical texts to contemporary voices. Each chapter is devoted to a key virtue of Muslim ethics (gratitude, hospitality, modesty, mercy, forgiveness, care for the poor and the weak, generosity of the gift…), traced back to its Qur’anic, prophetic and wisdom sources. What emerges, the author stresses, is the specifically moral dimension of Islam which, alongside the dogmatic and the juridical, fully belongs to the religious Law (sharīʿa).
The volume extends a body of work Zilio-Grandi has devoted for more than two decades to the Arab-Muslim ethical lexicon; several of these studies have already been relayed on Pluriel — notably her contributions on ḥilm, raḥma, gratitude, repentance and silence.
The book is available in open access (PDF) through the Ca’ Foscari open archive.
Publié en 2025 par les Edizioni Ca’ Foscari à Venise, cet ouvrage de Ida Zilio-Grandi (Université Ca’ Foscari) est la traduction anglaise augmentée du volume Le virtù del buon Musulmano, paru chez Einaudi (Turin) en 2020.
L’autrice y explore les fondements moraux de l’islam à partir d’un large éventail de la littérature religieuse en arabe, des textes classiques aux voix contemporaines. Chaque chapitre est consacré à une vertu-clé de l’éthique musulmane (gratitude, hospitalité, modestie, miséricorde, pardon, attention aux pauvres et aux faibles, don…), reconstituée à partir de ses sources coraniques, prophétiques et sapientielles. Y apparaît, souligne l’autrice, la dimension proprement morale de l’islam qui, aux côtés du dogmatique et du juridique, participe à part entière de la Loi religieuse (šarīʿa).
Ce volume prolonge une série d’études que la chercheuse a consacrées depuis plus de deux décennies au lexique éthique arabo-musulman, dont plusieurs sont déjà relayés par Pluriel — notamment ses contributions sur le ḥilm, la raḥma, la gratitude, la repentance ou le silence.
L’ouvrage est disponible en accès libre (PDF) via l’archive ouverte de l’Université Ca’ Foscari.
صدر هذا العمل عام 2025 عن منشورات كافوسكاري في مدينة البندقية، للباحثة إيدا زيليو-غراندي، الأستاذة في جامعة كافوسكاري. وهو ترجمةٌ إنجليزيةٌ موسّعةٌ لعملها الإيطالي:
Le virtù del buon Musulmano (Einaudi, Torino, 2020)
تتناول المؤلّفة الأسسَ الأخلاقيةَ للإسلام عبر طيفٍ واسعٍ من الأدبيات الدينية باللغة العربية، من النصوص الكلاسيكية إلى الأصوات المعاصرة. ويُخصَّص كلُّ فصلٍ لفضيلةٍ مركزيةٍ من الفضائل الإسلامية (الشكر، وحسن الضيافة، والحياء، والرحمة، والعفو، والعناية بالفقراء والمستضعفين، وحُسن العطاء…)، مع استعادةٍ لأصولها القرآنية والنبوية والحِكْمية. ومن خلال ذلك، يبرز البُعد الأخلاقي المميّز للإسلام، الذي يشكّل، إلى جانب البعدَين العَقَدي والتشريعي، ركنًا كاملًا في الشريعة.
ويستأنف هذا الكتاب سلسلةً من الأبحاث كرّستها زيليو-غراندي منذ أكثر من عقدَين للمعجم الأخلاقي العربي-الإسلامي، وقد نُشر عددٌ منها على منصّة «بلوريَل»، ومنها دراساتها حول الحِلم والرحمة والشكر والتوبة والصمت.
الكتابُ متاحٌ بصيغة PDF على الأرشيف المفتوح لجامعة كافوسكاري.
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