Virtues of Greatness in the Arabic Tradition

There are few ideals of character as distinctive and divisive as the ancient virtue of ''greatness of soul''. A larger-than-life virtue embodying nothing less than a vision of human greatness, it has often been seen as a relic of the Homeric world and its honour-loving heroes. In philosophy, it found its most celebrated expression in Aristotle''s ethics, and it has lived on in the minds of philoso...