Halstead, J. Mark (2007) Islamic values: a distinctive framework
for moral education? Journal of Moral Education, 36 (3). pp.
283-286. ISSN 0305-7240Metadata only available from this
repository. The first half of this Editorial examines the
implications of the close link between morality and religion in
Islamic thinking. There is no separate discipline of ethics in
Islam, and the comparative importance of reason and revelation
in determining moral values is open to debate. For most Muslims,
what is considered hall (permitted) and harm (forbidden) in
Islam is understood in terms of what God defines as right and
good. There are three main kinds of values: (a) akhlq, which
refers to the duties and responsibilities set out in the
shari'ah and in Islamic teaching generally; (b) adab, which
refers to the manners associated with good breeding; and (c) the
qualities of character possessed by a good Muslim, following the
example of the Prophet Muhammad. Among the main differences
between Islamic and western morality a