| Description |
1 online resource (157 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy Series |
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Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note On Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Ghazālī's scepticism and quest for the foundations of knowledge -- Background to Classical Scepticism (safsaṭa) -- The Metaphysical Dimensions of Knowledge -- Ghazālī's Hierarchy (marāṭib) of Certainty -- Ghazālī's Methodological Doubt and Foundationalism -- The Repudiation and Placement of taqlīd |
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Sense Perception, Rational Judgement, and Spiritual Intuition -- the Faculties of Knowing -- The Divine Light and Ghazālī's Foundationalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Certainty at the Nexus Between Reason and Religious Authority -- Ghazālī's critique of Bāṭinite scepticism in The Infamies and his rational support for the validity of reason -- Ghazālī's Hermeneutical Theory (taʼwīl) in The Infamies -- Quranic Support for Philosophical Demonstration in The Straight Balance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Scepticism, Certainty, and the Philosophical Tradition |
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Early Ashʿarite and Avicennian cosmology -- The Principle of Causality in The Incoherence of the Philosophers -- Occasionalism and Ghazāli's Sceptical Assault -- Ghazāli's Modified Aristotelianism -- Certainty and Revelation (Prophecy and Mystical Cognition) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Certainty Within the Sufi Tradition -- The Second Crisis and the Quest for Prophetic Knowledge -- Deliberation On The Deliverance From Error -- The Path to the Knowledge of God and Our Inability to Truly Know Him -- The Unknowability of God |
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Science of the path to the hereafter (ʿilm ṭarīq al-ākhira) -- Science of praxis (ʿilm al-muʿāmala) -- Science of unveiling (ʿilm al-mukāshafa) -- Sufi Ontology of Oneness as the Apex of Certainty -- Trust (tawakkul) and the elements of certainty to be sought -- The Quranic Triad of Certainty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Epilogue -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
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| SUBJECT |
Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. fast (OCoLC)fst00095924 |
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Belief and doubt -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
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Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1850
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Islamic philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
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| Genre/Form |
Early works.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000967036 |
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1000967034 |
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