In Islamic tradition the body is not individually owned but bound by collective obligations

Evidence

In this tradition, the body-and-its-capacities is not owned solely by the individual but is subject to a variety of obligations held by others as fellow Muslims. There is therefore a continuous, unresolved tension between responsibility as individual and metaphysical on the one hand, and as collective and quotidian on the other—that is, between eschatology and sociology. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 443

Categorization

  • DEEPTHINKING: The unresolved tension between eschatology and sociology — responsibility being simultaneously individual-metaphysical and collective-quotidian — is dense enough to sit with: it reframes the entire question of Islamic ethics versus Western liberal individualism.
  • XREF: connects to: The body is primarily known as the Other’s body, not one’s own