Al-Ghazzali On Repentance (Great Books of the Islamic World) - Softcover

Ab� H�mid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Ghaz�l�

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9781567447040: Al-Ghazzali On Repentance (Great Books of the Islamic World)

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ISBN 10: 156744704X ISBN 13: 9781567447040

Publisher: Kazi Publications, Inc., 2003

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What is the virtue of repentance and its spiritual reward? Al-Ghazzali discusses the true nature of repentance, how repentance is a religious duty, how God accepts repentance, minor and major sins, how minor sins become major ones, the prerequisites of repentance, eight acts which atone for sins, the treatment for not being able to repent and whether reprentance of certain sins is correct or not. This is Book XXXI of Part Four of the Alchemy of Happiness entitled The Deliverers.

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Al-Ghaz�l� (c.1056 1111) was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam. He was active at a time when Sunni theology had just passed through its consolidation and entered a period of intense challenges from Shiite Ism� �lite theology and the Arabic tradition of Aristotelian philosophy (falsafa). Al-Ghaz�l� understood the importance of falsafa and developed a complex response that rejected and condemned some of its teachings, while it also allowed him to accept and apply others. Al-Ghaz�l�'s critique of twenty positions of falsafa in his Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tah�fut al-fal�sifa) is a significant landmark in the history of philosophy as it advances the nominalist critique of Aristotelian science developed later in 14th century Europe. On the Arabic and Muslim side al-Ghaz�l�'s acceptance of demonstration (apodeixis) led to a much more refined and precise discourse on epistemology and a flowering of Aristotelian logics and metaphysics. With al-Ghaz�l� begins the successful introduction of Aristotelianism or rather Avicennism into Muslim theology. After a period of appropriation of the Greek sciences in the translation movement from Greek into Arabic and the writings of the fal�sifa up to Avicenna (Ibn S�n�, c.980 1037), philosophy and the Greek sciences were naturalized into the discourse of kal�m and Muslim theology (Sabra 1987). Al-Ghaz�l�'s approach to resolving apparent contradictions between reason and revelation was accepted by almost all later Muslim theologians and had, via the works of Averroes (Ibn Rushd, 1126 98) and Jewish authors a significant influence on Latin medieval thinking.
-- Griffel, Frank, "Al-Ghazali", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

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