Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness by Sophia Vasalou

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness

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  • Genre Philosophy
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
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  • Length 212 Pages

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

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