Sophia Vasalou

In this talk, I will introduce my forthcoming book Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition (OUP, 2019) and use it as a springboard for a broader conversation about fruitful new directions in Islamic ethics. While there has been longstanding scholarly interest in the political and moral ideas of philosophers in the Islamic world, in many regards the “virtue turn” in Anglophone philosophy has only recently begun to be reflected in scholarship on the Arabic-Islamic tradition.