Islam and rationality : the impact of al-Ghazali : papers collected on his 900th anniversary / edited by Georges Tamer

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-439) and indexes

v. 1. God versus causality: Al-Ghazālī's solution and its historical background / Hans Daiber -- Al-Ghazālī's changing attitude to philosophy / Wilferd Madelung -- Al-Ghazālī and the rationalization of Sufism / Binyamin Abrahamov -- Revelation, sciences and symbolism: Al-Ghazālī's Jawāhir al-Qurʼān / Georges Tamer -- Al-Ghazālī at his most rationalist: the universal rule for allegorically interpreting revelation (al-Qānūn al-Kullī fī t-Taʼwīl) / Frank Griffel -- The comedy of reason: strategies of humour in al-Ghazālī / Eric Ormsby -- Al-Ghazālī on the emotions / Taneli Kukkonen -- Sex, marriage and the family in Al-Ghazālī's thought: some preliminary notes / Avner Giladi -- The duties of the teacher: Al_Iṣfahānī's Dharīʻa as a source of inspiration for al-Ghazālī's Mīzān al-ʻAmal / Yasien Mohamed -- Revisiting al-Ghazālī's crisis through his Scale for action (Mizān al-ʻAmal) / Kenneth Garden -- Al-Ghazālī on knowledge (ʻilm) and certainty (yaqīn) in al-Munqidh min aḍ-Ḍalāl and in al-Qisṭās al-Mustaqīm / Luis Xavier López-Farjeat -- Ghazālī's hermeneutics their reception in Jewish tradition: Mishkāt al-Anwār (The niche of lights) and Maimonides' Shemonah Peraqim (Eight chapters) / Scott Michael Girdner -- Al-Ghazālī, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: conflict and conflation / Alfred L. Ivry -- The changing image of al-Ghazālī in medieval Jewish thought / Steven Harvey -- The influence of al-Ghazālī on the juridical, theological and philosophical works of Barhebraeus / Hidemi Takahashi -- R. Marti and his references to al-Ghazālī / Jules Janssens -- Al-Ghazālī's esotericism according to Ibn Taymiyya's Bughyat al-Murtād / Yahya M. Michot -- Arbitrating between al-Ghazālī and the philosophers: the Tahāfut commentaries in the Ottoman intellectual context / M. Sait Özervarli

v. 2. Al-Ghazālī on error / Taneli Kukkonen -- Al-Ghazālī's concept of philosophy / Ulrich Rudolph -- Problems in al-Ghazālī's perfect world: objections and counter-objections to his best possible world thesis / Stephen R. Ogden -- Al-Ghazālī's teleology and the Galenic tradition: reading The wisdom in God's creations (al-Ḥikma fī makhlūqāt Allah) / Ahmed El Shamsy -- Al-Ghazālī and kalām: the conundrum of his body-soul dualism / Ayman Shihadeh -- Al-Ghazālī's veil section: comparative religion before religionswissenschaft? / Anna Ayşe Akasoy -- Is there an autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318? / Frank Griffel -- Intuition, intellection, and mystical knowledge: delineating Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's cognitive theories / Damien Janos -- Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's use of al-Ghazālī's Mishkāt in his commentary on the light verse (Q 24:35) / Jules Janssens -- Ottoman perceptions of al-Ghazālī's works and discussions on his historical role in its late period / M. Sait Özervarlı -- Al-Ghazālī's "demarcation of science": a commonplace apology in the Muslim reception of modern science--and its limitations / Martin Riexinger -- The revival of the religious sciences in the twenty-first century: Suʻād al-Ḥakīm's adaptation of al-Ghazālī's Revival / Kenneth Garden