whether all meaningful understanding of his works is premised on the establishment of a chronological order, or whether his ‘true’ doctrine is to be found only in his esoteric treatises.
These two new translations of such disparate and conflicting texts again raise the question of the unity and coherence of Ghazali’s teachings, viz.
One day you are a Yamanite, when you meet a man of Yamanīut when you meet a man of Ma´add, you assert you are from ´Adnan” Ibn-Rushd, the great antagonist and adversary of Al-Ghazali who was born after his death, for instance, claimed in a vein of unkind polemics that “Abu Hamid … adhered to no single doctrine in his works, but he was an Ash´arite with the Ash´arites, a Sufi with the Sufis, and a philosopher with the philosophers, so that he was like the man in the verse: Little wonder that Al-Ghazali’s opponents accused him of being all things to all men.
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The paths of harmony and accord, however, are paved with the cobblestones of compromise and conciliation and the acquisition of half a loaf by those who demand a full one is seldom gratifying. ISBN 0-8425-2351-7.Ību-Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali (450-505/1058-1111) was the greatest scholar and saint of classical Islam who wrought a veritable and enduring synthesis of theology, philosophy, law and mysticism in a universal science of Islam. Brigham University Press, Provo, Utah, 1997. Two Poles of a Critical and Creative FaithĪL-Ghazali : The Incoherence of the Philosophers.
The incoherence of the philosophers: Tahafut al-falasifah: a parallel English-Arabic text (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1997). Kamali (1963) (PDF) also in html (Thanks to a volunteer) Read online on Scribd Hikmat Hashem, Dean of Philosophy department at Damascus University. ( Arabic PDF)! This edition includes a lecture by Mahmoud ‘Abbas al-‘Aqad and a postscript by Dr. Arabic E-text in word format -partially proofread.Text (with an introduction and notes by S.Critical edition: ( Tahafot al-falasifat / Algazel texte arabe etabli et accompagne d'un sommaire latin et d'index par Maurice Bouyges.) (PDF).
This is the most famous philosophical work of Imam Ghazali. Tahafut al-Falasifa (Incoherence of philosophers)īy: Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (450-505 AH)
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