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- Title: Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination.
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 170 KB
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Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination. By EBRAHIM MOOSA. Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks. Chapel Hill: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, 2005. Pp. xi + 349. $22.50. Arguably for the best part of a century, but certainly for the past couple of decades, the fertile field of Ghazali studies has been embroiled in a debate over the true nature of the "most prominent Muslim after Muhammad." Abu Hamid al Ghazali (d. 1111, one of the easiest dates in Islamic history to remember), as practically all good students of Islamic civilization know, was the most important Sunni Ash'ari theologian of the medieval period, who, by virtue of also being a Sufi, effected the reconciliation of the Sufi path to the Sunni creed. A defender of "orthodoxy," he condemned Shi'i heretics (Ismailis) in his Fada'ih al-Batiniyya and anathematized philosophers in his Tahafut al-falasifa for holding three key heretical doctrines: the co-eternity of the cosmos with God, the denial of God's knowledge of particulars, and the denial of (the Qur'anic account of) bodily resurrection. However, some specialists (especially Richard Frank) have argued that the systematic influence of Avicennan philosophy upon Ghazali made him a philosopher foremost; the impact of Avicennan cosmology, prophetology, and indeed psychology is quite clear in his Mishkat al-anwar and his magnum opus Ihya' 'ulum ai-din. Jules Janssens has even argued that there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the Tahdfut should not be read as an anti-Avicennan text. These scholars have argued that there are systematic ambivalences in Ghazali that result from his attempt at reconciling contradictory epistemologies and modes of inquiry (Avicennan philosophy, Sufism, Ash'ari theology) designed for different readerships.
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