Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness

Title: Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Author: Sophia Vasalou
Release: 2025-02-15
Kind: ebook
Genre: Philosophy, Books, Nonfiction, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Islam
Size: 2405876
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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