Islam and Rationality : The Impact of Al-Ghaz?l?. Papers Collected on His 900th Anniversary. Vol. 1

Georges Tamer

ISBN 10: 9004513310 / ISBN 13: 9789004513310

Published by Brill Jan 2022, 2022

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Neuware - Islam and Rationality offers an account of Abu ?amid al-Ghazali as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism, and how his work was received by later Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islam and Rationality : The Impact of Al-Ghaz?l?. Papers Collected on His 900th Anniversary. Vol. 1
• Publisher: Brill Jan 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004513310
• ISBN 13: 9789004513310
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 154H x 52D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 154 millimeters height by 52 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1270 grams

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Synopsis

This volume offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism. The majority of the papers herein deal with important topics of al-Ghazālī’s work, which demonstrate his rational treatment of the Qurʾān and major subjects of Islamic theology and everyday life of Muslims. Some other contributions address al-Ghazālī’s sources and how his intellectual endeavors were later received by scholars who had the same concern of reconciling religion and rationality within Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

With contributions by Binyamin Abrahamov, Hans Daiber, Ken Garden, Avner Giladi, Scott Girdner, Frank Griffel, Steven Harvey, Alfred Ivry, Jules Janssens, Taneli Kukkonen, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Wilferd Madelung, Yahya M. Michot, Yasien Mohamed, Eric Ormsby, M. Sait Özervarlı, and Hidemi Takahashi.

About the Author

Georges Tamer, PhD (2000), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published extensively on the Qurʾān, Qurʾānic hermeneutics, Arabic philosophy and its reception in modern times, rational discourses in Islam, and interreligious relationships.