Al-Ghazālī and the idea of moral beauty / Sophia Vasalou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vasalou, Sophia, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Islam in the world.

Islam in the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn.

Ghazzālī.

Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Islam.

Aesthetics.

Islamic ethics.

Islam--Doctrines.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Sophia Vasalou is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on philosophical and theological ethics in the Islamic world. Her published works include Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Muʻtazilite Ethics (2008), Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime (2013), and Wonder: A Grammar (2015).

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The place of aesthetic experience in al-Ghazali's ethics

3. The good and/as the beautiful in context

4. Moral beauty and the paradigm of disinterested love

5. A conflict in al-Ghazali's ethics?

6. Resolving the conflict: an interpretive toolbox

7. Concluding comment

Index.

Notes:

"Routledge Focus" -- taken from front cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Vasalou, Sophia. Al-Ghazālī and the idea of moral beauty

ISBN:

9781003196556

1003196551

9781000472912

1000472914

9781000472967

1000472965

Publisher Number:

40030873228

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