Contents

Contents

Preface

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

1 God versus Causality: Al-Ghazālī’s Solution and its Historical Background

1 God versus Causality: Al-Ghazālī’s Solution and its Historical Background

2 Al-Ghazālī’s Changing Attitude to Philosophy

2 Al-Ghazālī’s Changing Attitude to Philosophy

3 Al-Ghazālī and the Rationalization of Sufism

3 Al-Ghazālī and the Rationalization of Sufism

4 Revelation, Sciences and Symbolism: Al-Ghazālī’s Jawāhir al-Qurʾān

4 Revelation, Sciences and Symbolism: Al-Ghazālī’s Jawāhir al-Qurʾān

5 Al-Ghazālī at His Most Rationalist: The Universal Rule for Allegorically Interpreting Revelation (al-Qānūn al-Kullī fī t-Ta ʾwīl)

5 Al-Ghazālī at His Most Rationalist: The Universal Rule for Allegorically Interpreting Revelation (al-Qānūn al-Kullī fī t-Ta ʾwīl)

6 The Comedy of Reason: Strategies of Humour in al-Ghazālī

6 The Comedy of Reason: Strategies of Humour in al-Ghazālī

7 Al-Ghazālī on the Emotions

7 Al-Ghazālī on the Emotions

8 Sex, Marriage and the Family in Al-Ghazālī’s Thought: Some Preliminary Notes

8 Sex, Marriage and the Family in Al-Ghazālī’s Thought: Some Preliminary Notes

9 The Duties of the Teacher: Al-Iṣfahānī’s Dharī ʿa as a Source of Inspiration for al-Ghazālī’sMīzān al-ʿAmal

9 The Duties of the Teacher: Al-Iṣfahānī’s Dharī ʿa as a Source of Inspiration for al-Ghazālī’sMīzān al-ʿAmal

10 Revisiting al-Ghazālī’s Crisis through His Scale for Action (Mizān al-ʿAmal)

10 Revisiting al-Ghazālī’s Crisis through His Scale for Action (Mizān al-ʿAmal)

11 Al-Ghazālī on Knowledge (ʿilm) and Certainty ( yaqīn) in al-Munqidh min aḍ-Ḍalāl and in al-Qisṭās al-Mustaqīm

11 Al-Ghazālī on Knowledge (ʿilm) and Certainty ( yaqīn) in al-Munqidh min aḍ-Ḍalāl and in al-Qisṭās al-Mustaqīm

12 Ghazālī’s Hermeneutics and Their Reception in Jewish Tradition: Mishkāt al-Anwār (The Niche of Lights) and Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim (Eight Chapters)

12 Ghazālī’s Hermeneutics and Their Reception in Jewish Tradition: Mishkāt al-Anwār (The Niche of Lights) and Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim (Eight Chapters)

13 Al-Ghazālī, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation

13 Al-Ghazālī, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation

14 The Changing Image of al-Ghazālī in MedievalJewish Thought

14 The Changing Image of al-Ghazālī in MedievalJewish Thought

15 The Influence of al-Ghazālī on the Juridical, Theological and Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus

15 The Influence of al-Ghazālī on the Juridical, Theological and Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus

16 R. Marti and His References to al-Ghazālī

16 R. Marti and His References to al-Ghazālī

17 Al-Ghazālī’s Esotericism According to Ibn Taymiyya’s Bughyat al-Murtād

17 Al-Ghazālī’s Esotericism According to Ibn Taymiyya’s Bughyat al-Murtād

18 Arbitrating between al-Ghazālī and the Philosophers: The Tahāfut Commentaries in the Ottoman Intellectual Context

18 Arbitrating between al-Ghazālī and the Philosophers: The Tahāfut Commentaries in the Ottoman Intellectual Context

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index of Works by al-Ghazālī

Index of Works by al-Ghazālī

Index of Authors

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects

Index of Subjects