Ghazālī and the poetics of imagination /
Moosa, Ebrahim.
Ghazālī and the poetics of imagination / Ebrahim Moosa. - Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) : map - Islamic civilization and Muslim networks . - Islamic civilization & Muslim networks. .
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.
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.
0807876453 9780807876459
Ghazali, 1058-1111
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Ġazzālī, Abū-Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad ((al- ))
Islamic philosophy.
Imagination--Religious aspects--Islam.
Creative ability--Religious aspects--Islam.
Philosophie islamique.
Imagination--Aspect religieux--Islam.
Créativité--Aspect religieux--Islam.
PHILOSOPHY--Eastern.
Creative ability--Religious aspects--Islam
Imagination--Religious aspects--Islam
Islamic philosophy
B753.G34 / M66 2005eb
181/.5
Ghazālī and the poetics of imagination / Ebrahim Moosa. - Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) : map - Islamic civilization and Muslim networks . - Islamic civilization & Muslim networks. .
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.
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.
0807876453 9780807876459
Ghazali, 1058-1111
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Ġazzālī, Abū-Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad ((al- ))
Islamic philosophy.
Imagination--Religious aspects--Islam.
Creative ability--Religious aspects--Islam.
Philosophie islamique.
Imagination--Aspect religieux--Islam.
Créativité--Aspect religieux--Islam.
PHILOSOPHY--Eastern.
Creative ability--Religious aspects--Islam
Imagination--Religious aspects--Islam
Islamic philosophy
B753.G34 / M66 2005eb
181/.5