The System of Fitra and Its Role in Building the Human Common Ground

About this book

Dr. Jamal Ashtiba studies fitra as an innate human orientation capable of supporting ethical common ground across cultures and civilizations. The book examines bodily, spiritual, and moral dimensions of human nature while asking how a shared disposition relates to revelation, reason, conscience, and social difference. It does not erase religious particularity or pretend that conflict disappears through sentiment. Instead, it seeks conceptual foundations for dignity, responsibility, and mutual recognition in a fragmented world. Islamic theology, moral philosophy, and social inquiry meet in an argument that the deepest structure of the human person can connect earth and heaven while also creating obligations toward other people.