Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of contributors viii
5. Preface ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Rules enabling moral life
8. 1 Conscience is tradition 37
9. 2 Manners and morals 59
10. 3 Control of the self and the casuistry of vows 80
11. Part II Rules and virtue
12. 4 Rules and the unruly 103
13. 5 ‘For the love of God’? 124
14. 6 Counting good and bad deeds under military rule 145
15. Part III Rules about rules
16. 7 Tactics of transformation 169
17. 8 Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab-law tradition 190
18. 9 Comparing casuistries 211
19. Afterword 234
20. Index 243