Islam and Rationality

The Impact of Al-Ghazālī. Papers Collected on His 900th Anniversary. Vol. 2
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51332-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1270 g

Al-Ghazali (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 Ghazali-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d. 428/1037) and other philosophers had a strong influence on him. Now, after the 900th anniversary at his death, the field emerges stronger than ever. This second volume of Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazali brings together twelve leading experts on al-Ghazali who write about his thought and the impact it had on later Muslim thinkers.

Contributors are: Anna Ayse Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait Özervarli, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffel, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface
Notes on Contributors
Keys and Conventions

Part I
Al-Ghazali’s Works and His Thought

1 Al-Ghazali on Error
Taneli Kukkonen

2 Al-Ghazali’s Concept of Philosophy
Ulrich Rudolph

3 Problems in al-Ghazali’s Perfect World: Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best
Possible World Thesis
Stephen Ogden

4 Al-Ghazali’s Teleology and the Galenic Tradition
Reading The Wisdom in God’s Creations (al-Hikma fi makhluqat Allah)
Ahmed El Shamsy

5 Al-Ghazali and Kalam: The Conundrum of His Body-Soul Dualism
Ayman Shihadeh

6 Al-Ghazali's Veils Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft?
Anna Ayse Akasoy

7 Is There An Autograph of al-Ghazali in MS Yale, Landberg 318?
Frank Griffel

Part II
Al-Ghazali’s Influence

8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge: Delineating Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s
Cognitive Theories
Damien Janos

9 Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Use of al-Ghazali’s Mishkat in His Commentary on the
Light Verse (Q 24:35)
Jules Janssens

10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazali’s Works and Discussions on His Historical Role
in the Late Ottoman Period
M. Sait Özervarli


11 Al-Ghazali’s “Demarcation of Science:” A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim
Reception of Modern Science — and its Limitations
Martin Riexinger

12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Su'ad Hakim’s
Adaptation of al-Ghazali’s Revival
Kenneth Garden

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Griffel, PhD (1999), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University, New Haven, USA. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Islamic thought, Islamic theology, and Arabic and Islamic philosophy, including Al-Ghazali’s Philosophical Theology (New York 2009).