Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness

What might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? Al-Ghaz¿l¿ and the Ideal of Godlikeness investigates how Muslim thinkers developed the idea of imitating God across diverse cultural channels and how al-Ghaz¿l¿--working under both philosophical and Sufi influences--cast the idea in a distinctive form.