Al-Ghazali and the Divine

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Al-Ghazālī and the Qur’ān: preliminary remarks
	Why al-Ghazālī and the Qur’ān
	Al-Ghazālī as the ‘Muslim intellectual’
	Notes
	Bibliography
1. Al-Ghazālī  and his time: His thought in context
	A troubled epoch
	Al-Ghazālī ’s political thought
	The polemics against Isma‘ilism and other deviant religious behaviour
	The crisis of Sunnism and al-Ghazālī ’s hopes of renewal
	Notes
	Bibliography
2. Science and action
	Science and action are twin sisters
	Religious knowledge: the forty principles of dı - n and the scholastic
dialectical theology (kala-m)
	The ethical level: how science becomes action. The right balance of action
	The ethical level: how science becomes action. The political and juridical dimensions
	The ethical level: the metaphor of the journey of the soul
	Notes
	Bibliography
3. Al-Ghazālī’s theology and metaphysics
	Introduction
	God’s Unity and Oneness (tawhı - d)
	Al-Ghazali, Avicenna and Averroes
	Al-Ghazālī and Ibn ‘Arabī : philosophical theology at work
	Notes
	Bibliography
4. Islamic Ghazalian theology and Christian theology
	The theoretical problem of the Trinity between Christianity and Islam: Prologue
	The main aspects of the trinitarian doctrine in relation to Islamic theology
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index