Al-Ghaz?l? and the Ideal of Godlikeness
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 March 2025
- ISBN 9780198912446
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 488 g
- Language English 688
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Short description:
What might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? Al-Ghaz?l? and the Ideal of Godlikeness investigates how Muslim thinkers developed the idea of imitating God across diverse cultural channels and how al-Ghaz?l?--working under both philosophical and Sufi influences--cast the idea in a distinctive form.
MoreLong description:
The idea that improving our character requires modelling ourselves on another will seem natural to many. But what might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? This book investigates how Muslim thinkers developed this idea against a rich backdrop of historical reflection on the topic and how one particular intellectual, Ab? ??mid al-Ghaz?l?, shaped the conversation. The idea that becoming virtuous means becoming like God has a long history. It was a calling card of Plato's philosophy and popular among many of the ancient philosophical schools. In the Islamic world, it assumed a vivid form at the hands of Sufi thinkers who took the beautiful names of God as the headline of a project of self-transformation. God's beautiful names aren't just objects for abstract understanding; they represent moral and spiritual ideals. Moved by both philosophical and Sufi inspirations, al-Ghaz?l? casts the idea in a distinctive form which lets us into the sources of its fascination--and to the welter of questions it provokes. What, for example, does it even mean to ascribe virtues to God, given how closely the virtues seem to be tied to human limitations? Does the imitation of God set an achievable standard-and given the risks of aiming for it, should we even try? Drawing on a range of broader perspectives on virtue, character education, and the role of exemplars, this book works through such questions and places al-Ghaz?l? at the heart of an unfolding conversation.
MoreTable of Contents:
An Unlikely Model?
The Spices of Different Cuisines: The Imitation of God between Philosophy and Sufism
Big Stories and Local Weaves: Al-Ghaz?l?'s Ethics and Psychology of Godlikeness
Skin in the Game: Theological Risks and Semantic Strategies
Praise as Good as an Insult: Can God Have the Virtues?
Feelings, For and Against: Patience, Compassion, and God's Emotionless Virtues
Licence to Feel: Admiration, Emulation, and Human Nature
The Paradox of Majesty: Divine Virtues, Human Vices?
Lighting Matches: On How to Have a Virtuous Sense of Superiority
Socrates' Question, Special Edition: Does God's Character Create Value?
Nice Theory, Shame about the Practice: Moral Ideals, Psychological Realism, and the Unusual Case of God's Character
Where Morality Stops: Cognitive Education, Moral Plenitude, and the Importance of Lists
The Future of God's Beautiful Names: On Awe, the Sacramental Power of Words, and Why Great Exemplars Attract Us
Conclusion: On Finding Ideas Interesting
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