Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond

Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond develops the ‘New Problem of Evil,’ a tension between divine scripture, morally troubling scriptural commands, and reliable moral judgments.

Tracing medieval Islamic debates among Ashʿarites, Muʿtazilites, and philosophers, Saemi shows limits of scripture-first approaches and develops ethics-first responses grounded in historical arguments.

He introduces principles like the Moses Principle and distinguishes legal from moral readings of scripture to reconcile believers’ moral intuitions with scriptural authority.

The book aims to offer constructive interpretive strategies for contemporary theists wrestling with morally problematic passages, while preserving the moral significance of revelation.

It contributes to ethics, philosophy of religion, and Islamic thought by combining historical scholarship with analytic ethical argumentation.