Foundations of the Educational and Moral School of Islam in Nahj al-Balagha

The moral school of Islam found the position of derivation, deduction and compilation of its teachings even higher than the two fields of jurisprudence and theology in the first century thanks to the enlightening verses of the Quran, the moral conduct of the holy prophet and his ethical traditions, and in particular the large number of ethical traditions, maxims, and sermons of Imam Ali and his moral conduct in the whole span of 25 yearsafter the Prophet. Relying on the ethical traditions of Nahj al-Balagha, this article is an attempt to present a coherent picture of his all- out enlightenment in the field of ethics. The issues discussed in the article are as follows: definition of ethical concepts, modification and correction of ethical concepts, preference of more significant ethical items to significant ones, and devising demonstrative ethics.