Al-Ghazālī and the idea of moral beauty /
Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). A giant of Islamic intellectual history, al-Ghazālī is celebrated for his achievements in a wide range of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2022].
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| Series: | Islam in the world.
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Table of 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.