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In this first volume of “The Religion of Modesty,” the great philosopher Taha Abd al-Rahman lays the foundations for a new ethical thought that responds to two demands: First, to enable Muslims to resume their intellectual contributions after a long period of interruption. He establishes a distinct set of concepts deeply rooted in Muslim culture, encompassing both horizontal and vertical dimensions, and extracts a specific set of principles that define its historical authenticity and human responsibility. Second, to prepare Muslims to contribute, alongside others, to the production of a thought that saves contemporary humanity from ruin. This humanity has betrayed the moral and spiritual values entrusted to it, and thus needs a new contract, an alternative to the “social contract,” that will not move it from the “state of nature” to the “civil state,” but rather from a “state of betrayal” to a “state of trust.” This innovative thinker calls it the “Covenant of Trust,” which connects humanity to the Creator as much as it connects it to creation, establishing this dual connection on the necessity of embodying the virtue of “modesty.”
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