Islam and Rationality. The Impact of al-Ghazali Papers collected on his 900th Anniversary. Vol. 2.

Griffel, Frank (ed.).

ISBN 10: 9004306951 / ISBN 13: 9789004306950

Published by Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2016

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24 x 16 cm, hardcover, 324 pages, some facsimile plates. " Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Text and Studies Volume 98 " Text in English. This volume contains twelve scholarly contributions examining the work and influence of al-Ghazali on Islamic and Western thought. It covers his philosophical, theological, and legal ideas, and how they shaped subsequent Islamic intellectual traditions. Condition: First endpaper missing, otherwise very good. See picture. 700g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islam and Rationality. The Impact of al-Ghazali Papers collected on his 900th Anniversary. Vol. 2.
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden / Boston
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004306951
• ISBN 13: 9789004306950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 700 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Filosofie

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Synopsis

Al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is one of the most influential thinkers of Islam. There is hardly a genre of Islamic literature where he is not regarded as a major authority. Islamic Law, Sufism, ethics, philosophy, and theology are all deeply shaped by him. Yet in the past thirty years, the field of Ghazālī-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037) and other philosophers had a strong influence on him. Now, after the 900th anniversary at his death, the field emerges stronger than ever. This second volume of Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī brings together twelve leading experts on al-Ghazālī who write about his thought and the impact it had on later Muslim thinkers.

Contributors are: Anna Ayşe Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait Özervarlı, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.

About the Author

Frank Griffel, PhD (1999), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University, New Haven, USA. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Islamic thought, Islamic theology, and Arabic and Islamic philosophy, including Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Theology (New York 2009).