Al-Ghazali and the Ismailis
：A Debate on Reason and Authority in Medieval Islam
Publication subTitle ：A Debate on Reason and Authority in Medieval Islam
Author： Mitha> Farouk
Publisher： I.B.Tauris
Publication year： 2001
E-ISBN: 9780857710277
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781860647925
Subject： B3 Asian philosophy
Keyword： 亚洲哲学
Language： ENG
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Description
Al-Ghazali (1058-1111CE) is arguably one of the most influential thinker in the history of Islam and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in the West that those of any other Muslim scholar. This study explores an important dimension of his thought that has not yet been fully examined, namely, his polemical engagement with the Ismailis of the Fatimid and early Alamut period. Al-Ghazali wrote several texts in refutation of the Ismailis, of which the most detailed, is the Kitab al-Mustaahiri. The author examines the key themes and arguments in this text, and analyses the ways in which al-Ghazali was influenced by the Ismailis. Al-Ghazali's debate with the Ismailis constitutes and important chapter in the history of Muslim thought and this book also explores the wider intellectual and political significance of this encounter, and especially the light it sheds on the central tensions and questions of the age in which al-Ghazali lived.
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