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Ghazālī and the poetics of imagination / Ebrahim Moosa.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic civilization & Muslim networksPublication details: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) : mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0807876453
  • 9780807876459
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ghazālī and the poetics of imagination.DDC classification:
  • 181/.5 22
LOC classification:
  • B753.G34 M66 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.80
  • EN 2830
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Contents:
Agonistics of the self -- Narrativity of the self -- Poetics of memory and writing -- Liminality and exile -- Grammar of the self -- Metaphysics of belief -- Dilemmas of Anathema and Heresy -- Hermeneutics of the self and subjectivity -- Technologies of the self and self-knowledge -- Knowledge of the strangers.
Summary: Focusing on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the preeminent Muslim thinker, this book argues that his work has lasting relevance as a model for a critical encounter with Muslim intellectual tradition in a modern and postmodern context. It proposes that Muslims who place their own traditions in conversation with modern traditions share the same vantage point.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)147567

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-335) and index.

Agonistics of the self -- Narrativity of the self -- Poetics of memory and writing -- Liminality and exile -- Grammar of the self -- Metaphysics of belief -- Dilemmas of Anathema and Heresy -- Hermeneutics of the self and subjectivity -- Technologies of the self and self-knowledge -- Knowledge of the strangers.

Print version record.

Focusing on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the preeminent Muslim thinker, this book argues that his work has lasting relevance as a model for a critical encounter with Muslim intellectual tradition in a modern and postmodern context. It proposes that Muslims who place their own traditions in conversation with modern traditions share the same vantage point.