Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad
- Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad
(1059–1111)
Primarily a theologian, Al-Ghazali taught in Baghdad, but in 1095 after a breakdown abandoned academic fields for a life of contemplation. He valued the insight given by mystical comprehension of things above that achieved by logic or reason. His
Self-destruction of the Philosophers is an attack on the Aristotelian doctrines of
Al-Farabi and
Avicenna . Generally speaking Al-Ghazali attacks the range of knowledge claimed by philosophers, particularly through a critique of knowledge of causation, about which he defends
occasionalism . The certainty of his own reasoning opened him to counterattack by
Averroës (
The Self-destruction of the Self-destruction ). Al-Ghazali is also remembered as the author of the
Revival of the Religious Sciences, an important influence on Sunnite Islam.
Philosophy dictionary.
Academic.
2011.
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GHAZĀLĪ, ABU ḤAMID MUḤAMMAD IBN MUḤAM-MAD AL-TŪSĪ AL-° — (1058–1111), Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, mystic, and religious reformer, who wrote mainly in Arabic. Al Ghazālī s best known work is his Iḥyā Ulūm al Dīn ( Revival of the Religious Sciences, 1096–7), in which he successfully reconciled… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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