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Islam and Rationality
The Impact of al-GhazÄlÄ«. Papers collected on his 900th Anniversary. Vol. 2
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Al-GhazÄlÄ« (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 GhazÄlÄ«-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn SÄ«nÄ, 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-GhazÄlÄ« brings together twelve leading experts on al-GhazÄlÄ« who write about his thought and the impact it had on later Muslim thinkers.
Contributors are: Anna AyÅe Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait Ãzervarlı, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.
Contributors are: Anna AyÅe Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait Ãzervarlı, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.
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-GhazÄlÄ«âs Philosophical Theology (New York 2009).
Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Keys and Conventions
Part I
Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Works and His Thought
1 Al-GhazÄlÄ« on Error
Taneli Kukkonen
2 Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Concept of Philosophy
Ulrich Rudolph
3 Problems in al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Perfect World: Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best
Possible World Thesis
Stephen Ogden
4 Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Teleology and the Galenic Tradition
Reading The Wisdom in Godâs Creations (al-Ḥikma fÄ« makhlÅ«qÄt Allah)
Ahmed El Shamsy
5 Al-GhazÄlÄ« and KalÄm: The Conundrum of His Body-Soul Dualism
Ayman Shihadeh
6 Al-Ghazali's Veils Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft?
Anna Ayá¹£e Akasoy
7 Is There An Autograph of al-GhazÄlÄ« in MS Yale, Landberg 318?
Frank Griffel
Part II
Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Influence
8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge: Delineating Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«âs
Cognitive Theories
Damien Janos
9 Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«âs Use of al-GhazÄlÄ«âs MishkÄt in His Commentary on the
Light Verse (Q 24:35)
Jules Janssens
10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Works and Discussions on His Historical Role
in the Late Ottoman Period
M. Sait Ãzervarlı
11 Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs âDemarcation of Science:â A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim
Reception of Modern Science â and its Limitations
Martin Riexinger
12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: SuÊ¿Äd ḤakÄ«mâs
Adaptation of al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Revival
Kenneth Garden
Indices
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Keys and Conventions
Part I
Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Works and His Thought
1 Al-GhazÄlÄ« on Error
Taneli Kukkonen
2 Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Concept of Philosophy
Ulrich Rudolph
3 Problems in al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Perfect World: Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best
Possible World Thesis
Stephen Ogden
4 Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Teleology and the Galenic Tradition
Reading The Wisdom in Godâs Creations (al-Ḥikma fÄ« makhlÅ«qÄt Allah)
Ahmed El Shamsy
5 Al-GhazÄlÄ« and KalÄm: The Conundrum of His Body-Soul Dualism
Ayman Shihadeh
6 Al-Ghazali's Veils Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft?
Anna Ayá¹£e Akasoy
7 Is There An Autograph of al-GhazÄlÄ« in MS Yale, Landberg 318?
Frank Griffel
Part II
Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Influence
8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge: Delineating Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«âs
Cognitive Theories
Damien Janos
9 Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«âs Use of al-GhazÄlÄ«âs MishkÄt in His Commentary on the
Light Verse (Q 24:35)
Jules Janssens
10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Works and Discussions on His Historical Role
in the Late Ottoman Period
M. Sait Ãzervarlı
11 Al-GhazÄlÄ«âs âDemarcation of Science:â A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim
Reception of Modern Science â and its Limitations
Martin Riexinger
12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: SuÊ¿Äd ḤakÄ«mâs
Adaptation of al-GhazÄlÄ«âs Revival
Kenneth Garden
Indices
All interested in Islamic intellectual history, theology, and Arabic philosophy, and particularly in the relationship between Islam and rationality.