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Book Synopsis Al-Ghazzali and Western Thought by : Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi
Download or read book Al-Ghazzali and Western Thought written by Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi and published by Adam Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology by : Frank Griffel
Download or read book Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology written by Frank Griffel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of Muslim thinker al-Ghazali's life and his understanding of cosmology-how God creates things and events in the world, how human acts relate to God's power, and how the universe is structured.
Book Synopsis The Confessions of Al Ghazzali by : Ghazzali
Download or read book The Confessions of Al Ghazzali written by Ghazzali and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confessions of Al Ghazzali is a short spiritual autobiography of Imam al Ghazali. The book covers a period in his life when he lived through a deep spiritual crisis of his beliefs. During that period, he retreated into seclusion, where he intensely meditated, prayed, and studied the branches of faith that were popular amongst the people at the time, namely philosophy, kalam theology, Isma'ilism, and the practice of the Sufis. Although he was a famous teacher at that time, he earnestly confessed his spiritual doubts and described how he reaffirmed his beliefs. It is an excellent book for anyone in a difficult spiritual period of life.
Book Synopsis The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali by : Montgomery. W. Watt
Download or read book The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali written by Montgomery. W. Watt and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Emerging from Darkness by : Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi
Download or read book Emerging from Darkness written by Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. Life And Times Of Al Ghazzali, 3. Ghazzali`S Philosophical Credentials, 4. Ghazzali`S Philosophy, 5. Ghazzali`S Method Of Doubt And His Views On Epistemology With Special Reference To Rene Descartes, 6. Ghazzali`S Impact On Medieval Western Philosophers, 7. Ghazzali`S Impact On Ibn Tufayl, 8. Ghazzali`S Impact On Ibn Rushd, 9. Ghazzali`S Impact On Modern Western Philosophers, 10. Conclusions.
Download or read book تهافت الفلاسفة written by Ghazzālī and published by Islamic translation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali lived a relatively short life (1058-1111), he established himself as one of the most important thinkers in the history of Islam. The Incoherence of the Philosophers, written after more than a decade of travel and ascetic contemplation, contends that while such Muslim philosophers as Avicenna boasted of unassailable arguments on matters of theology and metaphysics, they could not deliver on their claims; moreover, many of their assertions represented disguised heresy and unbelief. Despite its attempted refutation by the twelfth-century philosopher Ibn Rushd, al-Ghazali's work remains widely read and influential.
Book Synopsis Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief" by : Al-Ghazali
Download or read book Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief" written by Al-Ghazali and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his Incoherence of the Philosophers, Moderation in Belief is his most profound work of philosophical theology. In it, he offers what scholars consider to be the best defense of the Ash'arite school of Islamic theology that gained acceptance within orthodox Sunni theology in the twelfth century, though he also diverges from Ash'arism with his more rationalist approach to the Quran. Together with The Incoherence of the Philosophers, Moderation in Belief informs many subsequent theological debates, and its influence extends beyond the Islamic tradition, informing broader questions within Western philosophical and theological thought. The first complete English-language edition of Moderation in Belief, this new annotated translation by Aladdin M. Yaqub draws on the most esteemed critical editions of the Arabic texts and offers detailed commentary that analyzes and reconstructs the arguments found in the work’s four treatises. Explanations of the historical and intellectual background of the texts also enable readers with a limited knowledge of classical Arabic to fully explore al-Ghazali and this foundational text for the first time. With the recent resurgence of interest in Islamic philosophy and the conflict between philosophy and religion, this new translation will be a welcome addition to the scholarship.
Book Synopsis Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali by : Mohammed Al-Ghazzali
Download or read book Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali written by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comparative Study of Religions, interesting as a form of intellectual research, has for many a further value in the influence it may exert upon the widening and the deepening of the religious life. The practical value may become more and more acknowledged, if, as signs suggest, the reality of the religious experience is more keenly felt and mankind recognise the place of religious goods in the highest type of life. Though it is certainly premature to say that there is much serious acknowledgement and recognition of these values amongst the peoples of the world, there are reasons to think that tendencies of thought and feeling in this direction are increasing in power. One of the best means of aiding the Comparative Study of Religions and promoting these tendencies is by the publication of important books connected with the religions, representing the views of leading thinkers and saints. If we turn to Islam, we find that some Western writers describe it as in a condition of progressive decay, while others would have us believe that its onward march is a menace. It is well to be able to avoid the obvious purpose which lies behind both contentions. Nevertheless, to the present writer it appears true to say that there is much stagnation in Islam (In which religion is there not?), and that its spirit is often lost and its real teachings neglected owing to the general use of Arabic in the recitation of the Quran by persons entirely ignorant of that language, and also to the prevalent mechanical conception of the character of the Quran as a form of divine revelation. We believe that the Comparative Study of Religions will help to turn the attention of Muslims away from these to the emphasising of the essential spirit of Islam. This should be central and normative in the rising movements of reform and rejuvenescence. In this connection, as bringing out this spirit, it is especially appropriate, both for the students of the religions and for those directly interested in the spiritual revival in Islam, to publish in an easily accessible form some of the religious and moral teachings of Ghazzali. A Western scholar has written of him that he is “the greatest, certainly the most sympathetic figure in the history of Islam ... the only teacher of the after generations ever put by Muslims on a level with the four great Imams.” And he goes on to remark further; “In the renaissance of Islam which is now rising to view, his time will come and the new life will proceed from a renewed study of his works.” But Dieterici says of him: “As a despairing sceptic he springs suicidally into the all-God (i.e. all-pervading deity of the Pantheists) to kill all scientific reflection.” To justify such a judgment would indeed be impossible if the whole course of Ghazzali’s works is taken into consideration. The greatest eulogy is perhaps that of Tholuck: “All that is good, worthy, and sublime, which his great soul had compassed, he bestowed upon Muhammedanism, and he adorned the doctrines of the Quran with so much piety and learning that in the form given them by him they seem, in my opinion, worthy of the assent of Christians. Whatsoever was most excellent in the philosophy of Aristotle or in the Sufi mysticism, he discreetly adapted to the Muhammedan theology. From every school he sought the means of shedding light and honour upon religion, while his sincere piety and lofty conscientiousness imparted to all his writings a sacred majesty.”
Book Synopsis Theodicy in Islamic Thought by : Eric Linn Ormsby
Download or read book Theodicy in Islamic Thought written by Eric Linn Ormsby and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book points out distinctively Islamic formulations and solutions of the problem of the best of all possible worlds" and shows where they coincide with Western versions, such as that of Leibniz. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Some Fundamental Aspects of Imam Ghazzali's Thought by : Prof. M. Umaruddin
Download or read book Some Fundamental Aspects of Imam Ghazzali's Thought written by Prof. M. Umaruddin and published by Adam Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Natural Categories and Human Kinds by : Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Download or read book Natural Categories and Human Kinds written by Muhammad Ali Khalidi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has a much older history dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In recent years, essentialism has been the dominant account of natural kinds among philosophers, but the essentialist view has encountered resistance, especially among naturalist metaphysicians and philosophers of science. Informed by detailed examination of classification in the natural and social sciences, this book argues against essentialism and for a naturalist account of natural kinds. By looking at case studies drawn from diverse scientific disciplines, from fluid mechanics to virology and polymer science to psychiatry, the author argues that natural kinds are nodes in causal networks. On the basis of this account, he maintains that there can be natural kinds in the social sciences as well as the natural sciences.
Book Synopsis Al-Ghazali and Plato in Dialogue by : Michael Hanold
Download or read book Al-Ghazali and Plato in Dialogue written by Michael Hanold and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of al-Ghazali is undeniable in the Islamic world. Yet, al-Ghazali's influence on non-Islamic Western philosophy is neither as well-documented nor as obvious as other large names in Islamic philosophy. Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, and al-Farabi are all devoted far more explicit attention in the context of Western influence. Nevertheless, there are numerous indications of al-Ghazali's profound impact on non-Islamic Western philosophy. Individuals influenced by Ghazali include Aquinas, Maimonides, Descartes, and Hume to name a few. Therefore, I aim to elaborate on the extent and impact of Ghazali's thought on these individuals and others in the non-Islamic Western tradition. More specifically, this analysis of Ghazali's influence on non-Islamic Western thought will be primarily explored via Ghazali's critiques of Plato. As I will argue, it is through Western philosophy's responses, revisions, and criticisms of Plato that we see the reach of al-Ghazali in its clearest form.
Book Synopsis God and Humans in Islamic Thought by : Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth
Download or read book God and Humans in Islamic Thought written by Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The Iranian World Prize for the Book of the Year 2007 in the Philosophy and Mysticism category. This new and original text provides a timely re-examination of Islamic thought, presenting a stark contrast to the more usual conservative view. The explanation of the relationship between God and humans, as portrayed in Islam, is often influenced by the images of God and of human beings which theologians, philosophers and mystics have in mind. The early period of Islam reveals a diversity of interpretations of this relationship. Elkaisy-Friemuth discusses the view of three scholars from the tenth and eleventh century: Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali, which introduce three different approaches of looking at the relationship between God and Humans. God and Humans in Islamic Thought attempts to shed light on an important side of medieval rational thought in demonstrating its significance in forming the basis of an understanding of the nature of God, the nature of human beings and the construction of different bridges between them.
Book Synopsis Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination by : Ebrahim Moosa
Download or read book Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination written by Ebrahim Moosa and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-03-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abu Hamid al-Ghaz&257;l&299;, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Maimonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for his work in philosophy, ethics, law, and mysticism. In an engaged re-reading of the ideas of this preeminent Muslim thinker, Ebrahim Moosa argues that Ghaz&257;l&299;'s work has lasting relevance today as a model for a critical encounter with the Muslim intellectual tradition in a modern and postmodern context. Moosa employs the theme of the threshold, or dihliz, the space from which Ghaz&257;l&299; himself engaged the different currents of thought in his day, and proposes that contemporary Muslims who wish to place their own traditions in conversation with modern traditions consider the same vantage point. Moosa argues that by incorporating elements of Islamic theology, neoplatonic mysticism, and Aristotelian philosophy, Ghaz&257;l&299;'s work epitomizes the idea that the answers to life's complex realities do not reside in a single culture or intellectual tradition. Ghaz&257;l&299;'s emphasis on poiesis--creativity, imagination, and freedom of thought--provides a sorely needed model for a cosmopolitan intellectual renewal among Muslims, Moosa argues. Such a creative and critical inheritance, he concludes, ought to be heeded by those who seek to cultivate Muslim intellectual traditions in today's tumultuous world.
Book Synopsis Politics of the Islamic Tradition by : Mohammed Moussa
Download or read book Politics of the Islamic Tradition written by Mohammed Moussa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two centuries the Muslim world has undergone dramatic transformations, impacting the Islamic tradition and throwing into question our understanding of tradition. The notion of tradition as an unmoving edifice is contradicted by the very process of its transmission, and the complex role human beings play in creating and sustaining traditions is evident in the indigenous mechanisms of change within the Islamic tradition. Politics of the Islamic Tradition locates the work of Egyptian cleric Muhammad al-Ghazali within the context of this dynamic Islamic tradition, with special focus on his political thought. Al-Ghazali inherited a vast and diverse heritage which he managed to reinterpret in a changing world. An innovative exploration of the change and continuity present within Muslim discourses, this book brings together disparate threads of the Islamic tradition, religious exegesis, the contemporary Arab Middle East, the Islamic state and idea of renewal in al-Ghazali’s thought. As well as being one of the first complete treatments of al-Ghazali’s works, this book provides an original critical approach to tradition and its capability for innovation and change, countering the dichotomy between tradition and modernity that typically informs most scholarly studies on contemporary Islam. Offering highly original insights into Islamic thought and engaging with critical notions of tradition, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of Islamic Politics and History.
Book Synopsis The Confessions of Al-Ghazali by : Al Ghazali
Download or read book The Confessions of Al-Ghazali written by Al Ghazali and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Ghazali, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsīy al-Ġazālīy; Latinized Algazelus or Algazel; c.1058 - 19 December 1111) was one of the most prominent and influential Muslim philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam. He was of Persian origin.Some Muslims consider him to be a Mujaddid, a renewer of the faith who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every century to restore the faith of the ummah ("the Islamic Community"). His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" (Hujjat al-Islām).
Book Synopsis Atti: Eastern philosophies and western thought by :
Download or read book Atti: Eastern philosophies and western thought written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: