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].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffel, Frank, 1965- editor.

Akasoy, Anna, contributor.

Series:

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; Volume 98.

Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science : Texts and Studies, 0169-8729 ; Volume 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.

Ghazzālī.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Ghazālī-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, 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-Ghazālī brings together twelve leading experts on al-Ghazālī who write about his thought and the impact it had on later Muslim thinkers. Contributors are: Anna Ayşe Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait Özervarlı, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30749-4

OCLC:

927590675

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004307490 DOI