Islam and Rationality

The Impact of Al-Ghazālī. Papers Collected on His 900th Anniversary. Vol. 1
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51331-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1270 g

This volume offers an account of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (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-Ghazali’s work, which demonstrate his rational treatment of the Qur'an and major subjects of Islamic theology and everyday life of Muslims. Some other contributions address al-Ghazali’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 Özervarli, and Hidemi Takahashi.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tamer, Georges

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Georges Tamer
Introduction

Hans Daiber
God versus Causality: al-Ghazali’s Solution and its Historical Background

Wilferd Madelung
Al-Ghazali’s Changing Attitude to philosophy

Binyamin Abrahamov
Al-Ghazali and the Rationalization of Sufism

Georges Tamer
Revelation, Sciences and Symbolism: Al-Ghazali’s Jawahir al-Qur'an

Frank Griffel
Al-Ghazali at His Most Rationalist: The Universal Rule for Allegorically Interpreting Revelation (al-Qanun al-kulli fi t-ta'wil)

Eric Ormsby
The Comedy of Reason: Strategies of Humour in al-Ghazali

Taneli Kukkonen
Al-Ghazali on the Emotions

Avner Giladi
Sex, Marriage and the Family in Al-Ghazali’s Thought: Some Preliminary Notes

Yasien Mohamed
The Duties of the Teacher: al-Isfahani’s Dhari'a as a source of inspiration for al-Ghazali’s Mizan al-'amal

Ken Garden
Revisiting al-Ghazali’s Crisis through his Scale for Action (Mizan al-'amal)

Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
Al-Ghazali on Knowledge (‘ilm) and Certainty (yaqin) in al-Munqidh min ad-dalal and in al-Qistas al-mustaqim

Scott Girdner
Ghazali’s hermeneutics and their reception in Jewish Tradition:

Mishkat al-Anwar (The Niche of Lights) and Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim
(Eight Chapters)

Alfred Ivry
Al-Ghazali, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation

Steven Harvey
The Changing Image of al-Ghazali in Medieval Jewish Thought

Hidemi Takahashi
The Influence of al-Ghazali on the Juridical, Theological and Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus

Jules Janssens
R. Marti and His References to al-Ghazali

Yahya M. Michot
Al-Ghazali’s Esotericism according to Ibn Taymiyya’s Bughyat al-Murtad

M. Sait Özervarli
Arbitrating between al-Ghazali and the Philosophers:

The Tahafut Commentaries in the Ottoman Intellectual Context

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Georges Tamer, PhD (2000), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published extensively on the Qur'an, Qur'anic hermeneutics, Arabic philosophy and its reception in modern times, rational discourses in Islam, and interreligious relationships.