Sophia Vasalou (Asso Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology

Gebundenes Buch

Al-Ghazālī And the Ideal of Godlikeness

Beschreibung

What might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? Al-Ghazali and the Ideal of Godlikeness investigates how Muslim thinkers developed the idea of imitating God across diverse cultural channels and how al-Ghazali--working under both philosophical and Sufi influences--cast the idea in a distinctive form.

Autor

Sophia Vasalou studied Arabic and Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and obtained her doctorate from the University of Cambridge. She is currently Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. Her published works include Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics (2008, winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award for Middle Eastern Studies in 2009), Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime (2013), Wonder: A Grammar (2015), Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics (2016), and Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition (2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780198912446
• ISBN-10: 0198912447
• Artikelnr.: 73660041