Islam and Rationality

Contents

Preface
Notes on Contributors
Keys and Conventions

Part I
Al-Ghazālī’s Works and His Thought

1 Al-Ghazālī on Error
Taneli Kukkonen

2 Al-Ghazālī’s Concept of Philosophy
Ulrich Rudolph

3 Problems in al-Ghazālī’s Perfect World: Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best
Possible World Thesis
Stephen Ogden

4 Al-Ghazālī’s Teleology and the Galenic Tradition
Reading The Wisdom in God’s Creations (al-Ḥikma fī makhlūqāt Allah)
Ahmed El Shamsy

5 Al-Ghazālī and Kalām: The Conundrum of His Body-Soul Dualism
Ayman Shihadeh

6 Al-Ghazali's Veils Section: Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft?
Anna Ayṣe Akasoy

7 Is There An Autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318?
Frank Griffel

Part II
Al-Ghazālī’s Influence

8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge: Delineating Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s
Cognitive Theories
Damien Janos

9 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Use of al-Ghazālī’s Mishkāt in His Commentary on the
Light Verse (Q 24:35)
Jules Janssens

10 Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazālī’s Works and Discussions on His Historical Role
in the Late Ottoman Period
M. Sait Özervarlı

11 Al-Ghazālī’s “Demarcation of Science:” A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim
Reception of Modern Science — and its Limitations
Martin Riexinger

12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Suʿād Ḥakīm’s
Adaptation of al-Ghazālī’s Revival
Kenneth Garden

Indices