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Timetable
Introduction
Chapter One: A Life Between Public and Private Instruction:
Al-Ghazali's Biography The Main Sources for Ghazali's Biography
Chapter Two: Al-Ghazali's Most Influential Students and
Followers
Chapter Three: Al-Ghazali On the Role of falsafa in Islam
Chapter Four: The Reconciliation of Reason and Revelation Through
the ''Rule of Interpretation''
Chapter Five: Cosmology in Early Islam-Developments that Led to
al-Ghazali's Incoherence of the Philosophers
Chapter Six: The Seventeenth Discussion of the Incoherence of the
Philosophers
Chapter Seven: Knowledge of Causal Connections is Necessary
Chapter Eight: Causes and Effects in the Revival of the Religious
Sciences
Chapter Nine: Cosmology in Works Written After the Revival
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Works by al-Ghazali
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Verses in the Qur'an
Frank Griffel is Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University and has published widely in the fields of Islamic theology, Arab and Islamic philosophy, Islamic law, and Muslim intellectual history.
"This work of historical theology is essential reading for those
wanting to understand with new depth and clarity the life and
teachings of al-Ghazali."--American Journal of Islamic Social
Sciences
"This work is a detailed examination of Al-Ghazali's position with
respect to Greek science and philosophy as it was presented to the
Muslim world in the works of Avicenna. In making this examination
the author has been able to correct certain misconceptions about
Al-Ghazali which have long been held by some Western scholars."
--Nicholas Heer, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilization, University of Washington, Seattle
"This book is a major contribution to the field of Islamic Studies.
Professor Griffel deserves our sincere gratitude and warm
congratulations!" --Bucherbesprechugen
"A highly useful introduction to the life and thought of one of the
most important theologians, not only of the Islamic world, but of
the world as a whole. Al-Ghazali is an outstanding thinker by any
stretch of the imagination, and as the author points out, we still
do not know enough about his life. This is an excellent work of
scholarship on an important and fascinating philosopher."
--Oliver Leaman, Professor of Philosophy, University of
Kentucky
"Frank Griffel's new book is a lucid synthesis of the latest
scholarship on al-Ghaz=al=i's life and legacy, his interpretive
method and his ideas about the world's creation and about divine,
human and natural causality. Griffel succeeds in presenting a
coherent and nuanced picture of the cosmology of this complex
thinker, who was both a scholar of jurisprudence and a mystic, both
a critic of philosophy and a philosophical theologian."
--Robert Wisnovsky, Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic
Studies, McGill University
"One of the most extensive and insightful studies of al-Ghazali
ever undertaken... Griffel's book is a veritable tour de force that
will remain a benchmark in Ghazalian studies for a long time to
come." --Theological Review
"Fascinating. . . Griffel's book is provocative, comprehensive, and
valuable."--Review of Middle East Studies
"Masterly...I strongly recommend this book to every student of
Arabic intellectual history."--Journal of the American Oriental
Society
"This work of historical theology is essential reading for those
wanting to understand with new depth and clarity the life and
teaching of al-Ghazali"--Martin Whittingham, Regent's Park
College
"Griffel's new book on the great Arabic theologian al-Ghazali is a
substantial contribution to te field of Arabic intellectual history
and to Ghazalian studies in particular...The book is a very well
written and enhanced by didactic images...masterly study, and I
strongly recommend this book to every student of Arabic
intellectual history."--Damien Janos, Georg-August Universitat
"In this fascinating study, Frank Giffel brings to life 'the proof
of Islam' Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, providing us with an updated
biography and good reason to rethink his cosmology...Griffel's book
is provocative, comprehensive, and valuable."--Review of Middle
Eastern Studies
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