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Aug 14, 2007 · al-Ghazali. First published Tue Aug 14, 2007; substantive revision Fri May 8, 2020. Al-Ghazâlî (c.1056–1111) was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam. He was active at a time when Sunni theology had just passed through its consolidation and entered a period of intense ...
- al-Farabi
Philosophy and logic in particular. Such interest explains...
- Arabic and Islamic Natural Philosophy and Natural Science
Natural philosophy, or physics, in the strict sense is the...
- Medieval Theories of Modality
The idea of divine choice between alternatives was absent in...
- Medieval Theories of Future Contingents
The philosophical debate concerning the truth-value of...
- Medieval Theories of Causation
The term ‘motion’, in Aristotelian philosophy, ... cannot...
- Ibn Rushd [Averroes]
Unlike Ibn Sīnā and al-Ghazālī, Ibn Rushd did not write an...
- al-Farabi
The celebrated medieval Muslim theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is customarily seen as a vehement critic of philosophy, responsible for single-handedly causing the decline of philosophy in the Islamic world after composing his landmark work The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahāfut al-Falāsifa).
- Brett Yardley
Jul 25, 2020 · 2. al-Ghazālī’s Dream Argument. Al-Ghazālī next considers beliefs based on reason—what he calls “primary truths”—such as the belief that 10 > 3 or the same claim cannot be simultaneously affirmed and denied (¶11). These beliefs do not fare any better than do beliefs from sensory experiences.
Al-Ghazali is persuaded that exterioriry leads to interiority (al-Ghazali (1970): 102ff.), so that Makdisi is right when he says, drawing a comparison between al-Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyyah on Sufism, that both criticized sharply the exaggerations of some Sufis because Sufism often sides against the religious law and devalues the external (and social) meanings of that law (Makdisi (1983): 55).
Al-Ghazālī (c. 1056–1111) Al-Ghazālī did not regard himself as a philosopher, given that during his period in Islamic intellectual history, philosophy was associated with the Aristotelian tradition promulgated primarily by Avicenna (Ibn Sina), and, for al-Ghazālī, Avicenna was undoubtedly considered to be an unbeliever whose philosophical views (such as his commitment to the eternity ...
Al-Ghazali, Muslim theologian and mystic whose great work, Ihya ‘ulum al-din, made Sufism (Islamic mysticism) an acceptable part of orthodox Islam. An accomplished scholar, he abandoned his career as a professor and adopted an ascetic life for some 10 years before returning to lecturing.
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Aug 5, 2011 · Ghazâlï and Descartes begins to emerge quite clearly. Al-Ghazâlï reckoned. divine light to be the superior most; for Descartes it is the natural light above which no faculty stands. In al-Ghazâlï's thought it is divine light that bestows. certitude; for Descartes it is natural light that performs the same function.
