Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURKISH JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, sa.2, ss.148-177, 2024 (ESCI)
This study aims to examine the Al-Akhlaq al-'Adudiyah, an Arabic treatise by'Adud al-Din al-Iji over its commentaries written in subsequent periods and make sense of the messages it carries for today's business ethics issues. Following its publication in the 14th century, the commentaries started to be written firstly by Sems'ud-d & icirc;n Kirm & acirc;n & icirc; and Seyf'ud-d & icirc;n Ahmad el-Ebher & icirc;, the students of al-Iji and continued by one or two additional copies being published in each century creating a corpus of Al-Akhlaq al-'Adudiyah commentaries. The third section of the treatise, which consists of four parts and is titled household management, has been taken as a basis, specifically its two subsections titled management of goods and management of employees, and nine commentaries written in different centuries have been comparatively analyzed. Through this analysis, the business ethics issues mentioned in the commentaries are evaluated from a contemporary business perspective, and the original treatise is re-annotated in the 21st century. The most important finding of the study is that the moral perspective in the original treatise, that is, the acceptance that the primary purpose of managing is to conduct business in accordance with morality, has been preserved in the following centuries. Some findings have also been obtained regarding how the commentators reflect the socio-economic conditions of their time in their works.