In the discourse that classical Arab culture held about itself, a discourse that we find developed and supported by the texts of adab that have come down to us, the individual who possesses the ethical quality of murūʾa, or that of adab, or both of these qualities at once, is considered to be a perfect, excellent person, a person such as everyone should aspire to be. In this work, entirely devoted to the study of the classical Arab ethical vision, we submit the Arabic concept of murūʾa/muruwwa to a detailed, in-depth and exhaustive analysis. This is the first time that this central concept of classical Arabic culture of adab has been studied in the plurality of its ethical, philosophical, political and aesthetic implications.
Salah Natij, Ph.D. (2013), University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, lecturer at the IUT (University of Nice Côte d'Azur) and in Preparatory Classes for the Grandes Ecoles (CPGE). He published, in 2024, The Theory of the BayÄn of al-JÄḥiáº. From a Hermeneutics of Nature to a Semiotics of Culture, Leiden, Brill, 2024, as well as numerous articles on the thought of adab in general and on the work of al-JâḥiẠin particular.