Islam and rationality. / The impact of al-Ghazali. : Papers collected on his 900th anniversary. : Vol. 2 / / edited by Frank Griffel ; contributors, Anna Ayse Akasoy [and twelve others].

• Superior document: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science : Texts and Studies, Volume 98
• TeilnehmendeR: Griffel, Frank, 1965-; Akasoy, Anna Ayse,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; Volume 98.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is one of the most influential thinkers of Islam. There is hardly a genre of Islamic literature where he is not regarded as a major authority. Islamic Law, Sufism, ethics, philosophy, and theology are all deeply shaped by him. Yet in the past thirty years, the field of Ghazā...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• 1 Al-Ghazālī on Error / Taneli Kukkonen
• 2 Al-Ghazālī’s Concept of Philosophy / Ulrich Rudolph
• 3 Problems in al-Ghazālī’s Perfect World / Stephen R. Ogden
• 4 Al-Ghazālī’s Teleology and the Galenic Tradition / Ahmed El Shamsy
• 5 Al-Ghazālī and Kalām / Ayman Shihadeh
• 6 Al-Ghazālī’s Veil Section / Anna Ayşe Akasoy
• 7 Is There an Autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318?
• 8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge / Damien Janos
• 9 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Use of al-Ghazālī’s Mishkāt in His Commentary on the Light Verse (Q 24:35) / Jules Janssens
• 10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazālī’s Works and Discussions on His Historical Role in Its Late Period / M. Sait Özervarlı
• 11 Al-Ghazālī’s “Demarcation of Science” / Martin Riexinger
• 12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century Suʿād al-Ḥakīm’s Adaptation of al-Ghazālī’s Revival / Kenneth Garden
• General Index of Names and Subjects
• Index of Passages in Works by al-Ghazālī
• Index of Verses in the Qurʾan.