Islam and Rationality: The Impact of Al-Ghazālī. Papers Collected on His 900th Anniversary. Vol. 2

By Edited by Frank Griffel

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 shaped by him. Yet in the past thirty years, the field of Ghazālī-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037) and other philosophers had a strong influence on him. Now, after the 900th anniversary at his death, the field emerges stronger than ever. This second volume of Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-Ghazālī brings together twelve leading experts on al-Ghazālī who write about his thought and the impact it had on later Muslim thinkers.

Contributors are: Anna Ayşe Akasoy, Ahmed El Shamsy, Kenneth Garden, Frank Griffel, Jules Janssens, Damien Janos, Taneli Kukkonen, Stephen Ogden, M. Sait zervarlı, Martin Riexinger, Ulrich Rudolph, and Ayman Shihadeh.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004513329
• ISBN13: 9789004513327
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"