title: Al-Ghazzali On Knowing This World and the Hereafter (Great Books of the Islamic World)
author: Ab Hmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazl
description: Al-Ghazl (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 challenges from Shiite Ism lite theology and the Arabic tradition of Aristotelian philosophy (<i>falsafa</i>). Al-Ghazl understood the importance of <i>falsafa</i> and developed a complex response that rejected and condemned some of its teachings, while it also allowed him to accept and apply others. Al-Ghazl's critique of twenty positions of <i>falsafa</i> in his <i>Incoherence of the Philosophers</i> (<i>Tahfut al-falsifa</i>) is a significant landmark in the history of philosophy as it advances the nominalist critique of Aristotelian science developed later in 14th century Europe. On the Arabic and Muslim side al-Ghazl's acceptance of demonstration (<i>apodeixis</i>) led to a much more refined and precise discourse on epistemology and a flowering of Aristotelian logics and metaphysics. With al-Ghazl begins the successful introduction of Aristotelianism or rather Avicennism into Muslim theology. After a period of appropriation of the Greek sciences in the translation movement from Greek into Arabic and the writings of the <i>falsifa</i> up to Avicenna (Ibn Sn, c.980 1037), philosophy and the Greek sciences were naturalized into the discourse of <i>kalm</i> and Muslim theology (Sabra 1987). Al-Ghazl's approach to resolving apparent contradictions between reason and revelation was accepted by almost all later Muslim theologians and had, via the works of Averroes (Ibn Rushd, 1126 98) and Jewish authors a significant influence on Latin medieval thinking. <br />-- Griffel, Frank, "Al-Ghazali", <i>The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i> (Summer 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
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