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Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination (Paperback, New edition)
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Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who
lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in
present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Malmonides
in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for
his work in philosophy, ethics, law, and mysticism. In an engaged
re-reading of the ideas of this preeminent Muslim thinker, Ebrahim
Moosa argues that Ghazali's work has lasting relevance today as a
model for a critical encounter with the Muslim intellectual
tradition in a modern and postmodern context. Moosa employs the
theme of the threshold, or dihliz, the space from which Ghazali
himself engaged the different currents of thought in his day, and
proposes that contemporary Muslims who wish to place their own
traditions in conversation with modern traditions consider the same
vantage point. Moosa argues that by incorporating elements of
Islamic theology, neoplatonic mysticism, and Aristotelian
philosophy, Ghazali's work epitomizes the idea that the answers to
life's complex realities do not reside in a single culture or
intellectual tradition. Ghazali's emphasis on poiesis - creativity,
imagination, and freedom of thought - provides a sorely needed
model for a cosmopolitan intellectual renewal among Muslims, Moosa
argues. Such a creative and critical inheritance, he concludes,
ought to be heeded by those who seek to cultivate Muslim
intellectual traditions in today's tumultuous world.
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