Islam and Rationality

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).

• ContentsPrefaceNotes on ContributorsKeys and ConventionsPart IAl-Ghazālī’s Works and His Thought1 Al-Ghazālī on ErrorTaneli Kukkonen2Al-Ghazālī’s Concept of Philosophy Ulrich Rudolph3 Problems in al-Ghazālī’s Perfect World: Objections and Counter-Objections to His BestPossible World ThesisStephen Ogden4 Al-Ghazālī’s Teleology and the Galenic TraditionReading The Wisdom in God’s Creations (al-Ḥikma fī makhlūqāt Allah)Ahmed El Shamsy5 Al-Ghazālī and Kalām: The Conundrum of His Body-Soul DualismAyman Shihadeh6 Al-Ghazali's Veils Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft?Anna Ayṣe Akasoy7Is There An Autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318?Frank GriffelPart IIAl-Ghazālī’s Influence8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge: Delineating Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Cognitive TheoriesDamien Janos9 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Use of al-Ghazālī’s Mishkāt in His Commentary on the Light Verse (Q 24:35)Jules Janssens10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazālī’s Works and Discussions on His Historical Role in the Late Ottoman PeriodM. Sait Özervarlı 11 Al-Ghazālī’s “Demarcation of Science:” A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim Reception of Modern Science — and its LimitationsMartin Riexinger12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Suʿād Ḥakīm’s Adaptation of al-Ghazālī’s RevivalKenneth GardenIndices