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Secondhand book for saleEbrahim Moosa.
Ghazali and the Poetics of the Imagination.
Published Karachi: Oxford U.P., 2006 reprint (previously issued 2005).
Series: Studies in Islamic Philosophy, vol. 2.
ISBN 0195471601;
ISBN-13: 9780195471601.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Mas Printers, Karachi.
Size: 164×243×21mm.
Page count: xv,349pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy is unused but shows some evidence of handling, and the usual mild scuffs & marks after long-term storage.
This item £15.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)Weight without packaging: 728g.
Ebrahim Moosa sets out to stimulate a rethinking of traditional Islamic legacies in cosmopolitan contemporary terms, in this case rethinking Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, one of the most important Islamic theologians of all time.
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; Conclusion — Knowledge of the strangers.
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: 1Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies:
Chronology: yes
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 21pp
Index: yes[BML/OUP][PC1]
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