Al Ghazali And The Idea Of Moral Beauty

Author : Sophia Vasalou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000472965
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty written by Sophia Vasalou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 disciplines. One of his greatest intellectual contributions lies in the sphere of ethics, where he presided over an ambitious attempt to integrate philosophical and scriptural ideas into a seamless ethical vision. The connection between ethics and aesthetics turns out to be a signature feature of this account. Virtue is one of the forms of beauty, and human beings are naturally disposed to respond to it with love. The universal human response to beauty in turn provides the central paradigm for thinking about the love commanded by God. While al-Ghazālī’s account of divine love has received ample attention, his special way of drawing the good into relation with the beautiful has oddly escaped remark. In this book Sophia Vasalou addresses this gap by offering a philosophical and contextual study of this aspect of al-Ghazālī’s ethics and of the conception of moral beauty that emerges from it. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in Islamic ethics, Islamic intellectual history, and the history of ethics.

Author : Muhammad Abul Quasem
Publisher : Academic Resources Corp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Al-Ghazali written by Muhammad Abul Quasem and published by Academic Resources Corp. This book was released on 1975 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mohammed A. Sherif
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143841983X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghazali's Theory of Virtue written by Mohammed A. Sherif and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Ghazali’s ethical thought as shown in his extensive treatment of the virtues and their relation to the ends of life and to each other.

Author : Muhammad Abul Quasem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789843322364
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Ethics of Al-Ghazali written by Muhammad Abul Quasem and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Umaruddin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book The Ethical Philosophy of Al-Ghazzali written by M. Umaruddin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mohammed Al-Ghazzali
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465543325
Total Pages : 119 pages
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Download or read book Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali written by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comparative Study of Religions, interesting as a form of intellectual research, has for many a further value in the influence it may exert upon the widening and the deepening of the religious life. The practical value may become more and more acknowledged, if, as signs suggest, the reality of the religious experience is more keenly felt and mankind recognise the place of religious goods in the highest type of life. Though it is certainly premature to say that there is much serious acknowledgement and recognition of these values amongst the peoples of the world, there are reasons to think that tendencies of thought and feeling in this direction are increasing in power. One of the best means of aiding the Comparative Study of Religions and promoting these tendencies is by the publication of important books connected with the religions, representing the views of leading thinkers and saints. If we turn to Islam, we find that some Western writers describe it as in a condition of progressive decay, while others would have us believe that its onward march is a menace. It is well to be able to avoid the obvious purpose which lies behind both contentions. Nevertheless, to the present writer it appears true to say that there is much stagnation in Islam (In which religion is there not?), and that its spirit is often lost and its real teachings neglected owing to the general use of Arabic in the recitation of the Quran by persons entirely ignorant of that language, and also to the prevalent mechanical conception of the character of the Quran as a form of divine revelation. We believe that the Comparative Study of Religions will help to turn the attention of Muslims away from these to the emphasising of the essential spirit of Islam. This should be central and normative in the rising movements of reform and rejuvenescence. In this connection, as bringing out this spirit, it is especially appropriate, both for the students of the religions and for those directly interested in the spiritual revival in Islam, to publish in an easily accessible form some of the religious and moral teachings of Ghazzali. A Western scholar has written of him that he is “the greatest, certainly the most sympathetic figure in the history of Islam ... the only teacher of the after generations ever put by Muslims on a level with the four great Imams.” And he goes on to remark further; “In the renaissance of Islam which is now rising to view, his time will come and the new life will proceed from a renewed study of his works.” But Dieterici says of him: “As a despairing sceptic he springs suicidally into the all-God (i.e. all-pervading deity of the Pantheists) to kill all scientific reflection.” To justify such a judgment would indeed be impossible if the whole course of Ghazzali’s works is taken into consideration. The greatest eulogy is perhaps that of Tholuck: “All that is good, worthy, and sublime, which his great soul had compassed, he bestowed upon Muhammedanism, and he adorned the doctrines of the Quran with so much piety and learning that in the form given them by him they seem, in my opinion, worthy of the assent of Christians. Whatsoever was most excellent in the philosophy of Aristotle or in the Sufi mysticism, he discreetly adapted to the Muhammedan theology. From every school he sought the means of shedding light and honour upon religion, while his sincere piety and lofty conscientiousness imparted to all his writings a sacred majesty.”

Author : Ghazzālī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Download or read book Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali written by Ghazzālī and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : al-Ǧazālī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Book of Knowledge written by al-Ǧazālī and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ghazzālī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book The Alchemy of Happiness written by Ghazzālī and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan E. Brockopp
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362089
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Ethics of Life written by Jonathan E. Brockopp and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering work on controversial issues within the Muslim world Islamic Ethics of Life considers three of the most contentious ethical issues of our time—abortion, war, and euthanasia—from the Muslim perspective. Distinguished scholars of Islamic studies have collaborated to produce a volume that both integrates Muslim thinking into the field of applied ethics and introduces readers to an aspect of the religion long overlooked in the West. This collective effort sets forth the relationship between Islamic ethics and law, clearly revealing the complexity and richness of the Islamic tradition as well as its responsiveness to these controversial modern issues. The contributors analyze classical sources and survey the modern ethical landscape to identify guiding principles within Islamic ethical thought. Clarifying the importance of pragmatism in Islamic decision making, the contributors also offer case studies related to specialized topics, including "wrongful birth" claims, terrorist attacks, and brain death. The case studies elicit possible variations on common Muslim perspectives. The contributors situate Muslim ethics relative to Christian and secular accounts of the value of human life, exposing surprising similarities and differences. In an introductory overview of the volume, Jonathan E. Brockopp underscores the steady focus on God as the one who determines the value of human life, and hence as the final arbiter of Islamic ethics. A foreword by Gene Outka places the volume in the context of general ethical studies, and an afterword by A. Kevin Reinhart suggests some significant ramifications for comparative religious ethics.