Islam and rationality. : papers collected on his 900th anniversary / / Volume 1, : The impact of al-Ghazali : / edited by Georges Tamer ; contributor, Binyamin Abrahamov [and seventeen others].

• Superior document: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science : Texts and Studies, Volume 94
• TeilnehmendeR: Tamer, Georges,; Abrahamov, Binyamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; Volume 94.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 pages).
• Notes: Volume 98 edited by Frank Griffel.

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 treatment of the Qurʾān and major subjects of Islamic theology and everyday life of Muslims. Some other contributions address al-Ghazālī’s sources and how his intellectual endeavors were later received by scholars who had the same concern of reconciling religion and rationality within Islam, Christianity and Judaism. With contributions by Binyamin Abrahamov, Hans Daiber, Ken Garden, Avner Giladi, Scott Girdner, Frank Griffel, Steven Harvey, Alfred Ivry, Jules Janssens, Taneli Kukkonen, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Wilferd Madelung, Yahya M. Michot, Yasien Mohamed, Eric Ormsby, M. Sait Özervarlı, and Hidemi Takahashi.

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.