Al-Ghazali's Philosophy
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At a close analysis, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī's Maqāṣid al-falāsifa [Intentions/Doctrines of the Philosophers] reveals itself as a richly stratified work, where the most rational trends of Avicennan falsafa intertwine with an approach strongly... more
The aim of this study is to discuss where the meaning of change and transformation experienced in daily life in Islamic thought is based on. In this regard, this study tries to emphasize the existential moral dimension of this change and... more
The Arabic-speaking theologian al-Ġazālī (d. 1111) describes his Maqāṣid al-falāsifa [The Aims of the Philosophers] as a neutral, evenhanded account of the doctrines of philosophy, which will merely open the way for their refutation –... more
Berikut adalah Kitab karangan Imam Ghazali yang berjudul Kitab Al-Munqidz min Al-Dlolal (Penyelamat Kesesatan), berisi tentang pengalaman dan perjalanan pribadi al-Ghazali dalam menempuh jalur sufi.
Al-Ghazali was an outstanding physicist, thinking philosopher who produced scientific works in many areas, including theology, philosophy, mysticism, morals, and education. The book of Ihya' Ulumuddin, is one of his great work in Islamic... more
Abu Hamid Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111) or al-Ghazali was a prominent Islamic thinker known in both East and West regions of the world. His idea encompassed in major areas of Islamic thoughts such as theology, philosophy,... more
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... more
The status of women in today’s Muslim world continues to spur debates regarding their role not just today but during the entire history of Islam. It also raises questions as to whether Muslim women have experienced greater or declining... more
Abstract. This article deals with the divine knowledge of particulars in Averroes’ Tahāfut al-tahāfut and Ḍamīma. It examines how the concept of relation, generally neglected, is at the heart of the dispute between Avicenna, al-Ġazālī,... more
Zoltán Kövecses introduced the notion of “context-induced creativity” that he argues that it “has not so far been systematically explored in the cognitive linguistic literature on metaphor”. Research on conceptual metaphor of the heart... more
It is usually thought that only one being can be all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving. Challenging this monotheist conviction, I propose a universe ruled by two deities: ‘day shift God’ oversees the events that occur while the sun is... more
This study aimed to identify the implications of the society's view of God and Religion via qualitative comparative research method. In result, the conflict between religion and science was caused by the fact that cosmology and... more
Predilections for classification of sciences in Muslim civilization tend to be seen as rooted in the classical antiquity heritage, as Franz Rosenthal goes. Yet the Sunni mainstream produced classifications significantly differing from the... more
This paper investigates a peculiar moment of the Latin reception of the Arabophone theologian and philosopher Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī (d. 1111) in the works of Albert the Great (d. 1280). It focuses primarily on a rather atypical remark in... more
International Graduate Workshop on Arabic Philosophy «Falsafa between φιλοσοφία and philosophia» - Pisa, 6-7 October 2017
Humans are present with all the potential that exists in them, both negative and positive, allof these potentials develop according to the direction of human life choices. Mental uneasiness originates from the development of wrong... more
ATEW (Advanced Topics in East and West) series of research seminars (org. A. Bertolacci)
This article presents an overall analysis of the explicit quotations of the Arabic speaking theologian and philosopher Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī (Latin Algazel) in Albert the Great’s entire work. The quotations, which are taken from the Summa... more
The paper analyses some interesting cases of doctrinal divergence between the text of al-Ġazālī's "Maqāṣid al-falāsifa" [Intentions/Doctrines of the Philosophers] and that of its Persian source, Avicenna's "Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī" [Book of... more
The aim of this contribution is to highlight al-Ġazālī’s account of ittiḥād or “union” with God; to this purpose, we have traced and examined, within his works, the various passages dedicated to the subject. This analysis shows that... more