Contents

Preface

Frank Griffel

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Keys and Conventions

Part 1

Al-Ghazālī’s Works and His Thought

Chapter 1

Al-Ghazālī on Error

Taneli Kukkonen

Chapter 2

Al-Ghazālī’s Concept of Philosophy

Ulrich Rudolph

Chapter 3

Problems in al-Ghazālī’s Perfect World

Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best Possible World Thesis

Stephen R. Ogden

Chapter 4

Al-Ghazālī’s Teleology and the Galenic Tradition

Reading The Wisdom in God’s Creations (al-Ḥikma fī makhlūqāt Allah)

Ahmed El Shamsy

Chapter 5

Al-Ghazālī and Kalām

The Conundrum of His Body-Soul Dualism

Ayman Shihadeh

Chapter 6

Al-Ghazālī’s Veil Section

Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft?

Anna Ayşe Akasoy

Chapter 7

Is There an Autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318?

Frank Griffel

Part 2

Al-Ghazālī’s Influence

Chapter 8

Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge

Delineating Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Cognitive Theories

Damien Janos

Chapter 9

Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Use of al-Ghazālī’s Mishkāt in His Commentary on the Light Verse (Q 24:35)

Jules Janssens

Chapter 10

Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazālī’s Works and Discussions on His Historical Role in Its Late Period

M. Sait Özervarlı

Chapter 11

Al-Ghazālī’s “Demarcation of Science”

A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim Reception of Modern Science— and Its Limitations

Martin Riexinger

Chapter 12

The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century

Suʿād al-Ḥakīm’s Adaptation of al-Ghazālī’s Revival

Kenneth Garden

Indices

General Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Passages in Works by al-Ghazālī

Index of Verses in the Qurʾan