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    Al-Ghazal&#299 and the Ideal of Godlikeness

    Sophia Vasalou

    What might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? Al-Ghazali and the Ideal of Godlikeness investigates how Muslim thinkers developed the idea of imitating God across diverse…

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    Al-Ghazali and the Idea of Moral Beauty

    Sophia Vasalou

    Al-Ghazali and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Abu ?amid al-Ghazali (d. 1111).

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    Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the concept of wonder and its significance in religion, philosophy, the arts and the sciences.

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    Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics

    Sophia Vasalou

    Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if he failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral…

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    Al-Ghazali and the Idea of Moral Beauty

    Sophia Vasalou

    Al-Ghazali and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111).

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    Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics

    Sophia Vasalou

    Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if he failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral…

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    Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the concept of wonder and its significance in religion, philosophy, the arts and the sciences.

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    Wonder: A Grammar

    Sophia Vasalou

    Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.

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    Wonder: A Grammar

    Sophia Vasalou

    Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.

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    The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity

    In The Measure of Greatness, thirteen scholars explore the various philosophical and theological approaches to the virtue of magnanimity, or greatness of soul, in ancient, medieval, and modern thought.

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    Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime

    Sophia Vasalou (University of Cambridge)

    Schopenhauer’s philosophy is well known for a deeply ingrained pessimistic quality. Vasalou carefully and subtly unpacks and analyses the elements of Schopenhauer’s conception of philosophical practice, suggesting that it is…

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    Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime

    Sophia Vasalou (University of Cambridge)

    Schopenhauer’s philosophy is well known for a deeply ingrained pessimistic quality. Vasalou carefully and subtly unpacks and analyses the elements of Schopenhauer’s conception of philosophical practice, suggesting that it is…

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    Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Wonder has often occupied a place of unique importance across a variety of human practices and intellectual activities. At different times and historical periods, it has been hailed as the…

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    The Old Woman And The River

    Ismail Fahd Ismail,Sophia Vasalou

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION

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    Ibn Taymiyya’s Theological Ethics

    Sophia Vasalou (Library of Arabic Literature Fellow, Library of Arabic Literature Fellow, NYU Abu Dhabi)

    This book investigates Ibn Taymiyya’s approach to some of the core ethical and theological questions of the classical period of Islam and, in doing so, sheds new light on his…

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    Ibn Taymiyya’s Theological Ethics

    Sophia Vasalou (Library of Arabic Literature Fellow, Library of Arabic Literature Fellow, NYU Abu Dhabi)

    This book investigates Ibn Taymiyya’s approach to some of the core ethical and theological questions of the classical period of Islam and, in doing so, sheds new light on his…

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    Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition

    Sophia Vasalou (Senior Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow in Philosophical Theology, Senior Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow in Philosophical Theology, University of Birmingham)

    Sophia Vasalou investigates the ‘virtues of greatness’ in the Islamic world. Examining the virtue of magnanimity in ancient philosophical ethics and the ‘greatness of spirit’ in the Arabic tradition, she…

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    The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century

    Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi,Abu 'Ali Miskawayh

    Questions and answers from two great philosophers

    Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning…

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    The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two

    Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi,Abu 'Ali Miskawayh

    Questions and answers from two great philosophers

    Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning…

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    The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One

    Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi,Abu 'Ali Miskawayh

    Questions and answers from two great philosophers

    Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning…

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