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ajiss-376		ajiss-376		22	.pdf	application/pdf	9741	359	38	For the moment, however, al- Ghazzali’s treatise on disciplining the soul and Ibn Miskawayh’s instruction on purifying one’s dispositions provide an important point of departure, including here Mohammed A. Sherif’s elaboration of al-Ghazzali’s theory of virtue.75 M. A. Draz’s discussion of both ethical theory and applied ethics, as these might be construed from the Qur’an, is an important supplement, as is Toshihiko Isutzu’s Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an.76 Salma K. Jayyusi’s engagement with ethical universalism in relation to the Arab tradi- tion is a notable recent contribution to contemporary human rights dis- course77 and should be read along with Mashood A. Baderin’s recent works on international law, Islamic law, and human rights.78 Conclusion It is a principal task of contemporary Islam, while responding both to its own intellectual tradition and to contemporary political ideological forces inter- nal and external to it, to rehabilitate and renovate the classical-era Islamic discipline of `ilm al-akhlaq. As a result, human rights proponents are often tempted to blame Islam, if not religion generally, for human rights violations.3 Yet another commentator, Ebrahim Moosa, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Duke University and associate director of its Islamic Studies Center would add to Oh’s list “a range of manifestly discriminatory practices [e.g., towards women] inherited from the medieval formulation of Islamic law” and deriving from that period’s “strong patriarchal and patri- lineal assumptions.”4	cache/ajiss-376.pdf	txt/ajiss-376.txt