Islam and rationality : the impact of al-Ghazali : papers collected on his 900th anniversary /

Islam and rationality : the impact of al-Ghazali : papers collected on his 900th anniversary /

This volume offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism. The majority of the papers herein deal with important topics of al-Ghazālī's work, which demonstrate his rational...

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Other Authors: Tamer, Georges., Griffel, Frank, 1965-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015-

Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 94.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287464.

Subjects:

Ghazzālī, > 1058-1111.
Faith and reason > Islam.
Practical reason.
Rationalism.

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Call Number: B753.G34 I78 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 God versus Causality /
  • Hans Daiber
  • 2 Al-Ghazālī's Changing Attitude to Philosophy /
  • Wilferd Madelung
  • 3 Al-Ghazālī and the Rationalization of Sufism /
  • Binyamin Abrahamov
  • 4 Revelation, Sciences and Symbolism /
  • Georges Tamer
  • 5 Al-Ghazālī at His Most Rationalist /
  • Frank Griffel
  • 6 The Comedy of Reason /
  • Eric Ormsby
  • 7 Al-Ghazālī on the Emotions /
  • Taneli Kukkonen
  • 8 Sex, Marriage and the Family in Al-Ghazālī's Thought /
  • Avner Giladi
  • 9 The Duties of the Teacher /
  • Yasien Mohamed
  • 10 Revisiting al-Ghazālī's Crisis through His Scale for Action (Mizān al-ʿAmal) /
  • Kenneth Garden
  • 11 Al-Ghazālī on Knowledge (ʿilm) and Certainty (yaqīn) in al-Munqidh min aḍ-Ḍalāl and in al-Qisṭās al-Mustaqīm /
  • Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
  • 12 Ghazālī's Hermeneutics and Their Reception in Jewish Tradition Mishkāt al-Anwār (The Niche of Lights) and Maimonides' Shemonah Peraqim (Eight Chapters) /
  • Scott Michael Girdner
  • 13 Al-Ghazālī, Averroes and Moshe Narboni /
  • Alfred L. Ivry
  • 14 The Changing Image of al-Ghazālī in Medieval Jewish Thought /
  • Steven Harvey
  • 15 The Influence of al-Ghazālī on the Juridical, Theological and Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus /
  • Hidemi Takahashi
  • 16 R. Marti and His References to al-Ghazālī /
  • Jules Janssens
  • 17 Al-Ghazālī's Esotericism According to Ibn Taymiyya's Bughyat al-Murtād /
  • Yahya M. Michot
  • 18 Arbitrating between al-Ghazālī and the Philosophers /
  • M. Sait Özervarlı
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Works by al-Ghazālī
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects.