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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.
- Medieval Theories of Causation
1. Causality and Motion. The term ‘motion’, in Aristotelian...
- Ibn Sina [Avicenna]
1. Life and Works 1.1 Life. At some point in his later...
- al-Farabi
Philosophy and logic in particular. Such interest explains...
- Ibn Rushd [Averroes]
Al-Kulliyyāt fī al-ṭibb (General Principles of Medicine)...
- Arabic and Islamic Natural Philosophy and Natural Science
Natural philosophy, or physics, in the strict sense is the...
- Medieval Theories of Causation
“The Just Mean in Belief” “The Niche for Lights” “al-Mustasfā” (Show more) al-Ghazālī (born 1058, Ṭūs, Iran—died December 18, 1111, Ṭūs) was a Muslim theologian and mystic whose great work, Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīnIḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn (“The Revival of the Religious Sciences”), made Sufism (Islamic mysticism) an acceptable part of orthodox Islam.
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Al-Ghazali crafted his rebuttal of the Aristotelian viewpoint on the creation of the world in The Eternity of the World. Al-Ghazali essentially formulates two main arguments for what he views as a sacrilegious thought process.
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Arabic: تهافت الفلاسفة, romanized: Tahāfut al-Falāsifa) is a landmark 11th-century work by the Muslim polymath al-Ghazali and a student of the Asharite school of Islamic theology criticizing the Avicennian school of early Islamic philosophy.
Aug 5, 2022 · Al-Ghazali: Philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age. Al-Ghazali was one of the most significant philosophers, jurists and theologians of a period in Islamic history which easily ranks as one of the most intellectually productive in world history. Aug 5, 2022 • By Luke Dunne, BA Philosophy & Theology. Al-Ghazali was known for his scepticism ...
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May 23, 2021 · Imam al-Ghazali: A Biography and Introduction — Imam Ghazali Institute. The following is excerpted from the introductions to IGI’s translations of al-Ghazali’s treatises Ayyuhal Walad and Concerning Divine Wisdom in the Creation of Man. He is the Imam, the Beauty of Religion and Proof of Islam, Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ...
He wrote on a wide range of topics including jurisprudence, theology, mysticism and philosophy. ghazali.org ( a virtual online library ) that aims to provide the complete works of al- Ghazālī in the original language -that have been published in print- and in translation.