Episode 33
Al-Ghazali - The Reviver of Religious Sciences
Let's Talk Religion · Filip Holm
May 17, 202228m 56s
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Show Notes
Perhaps the most requested figure here - al-Ghazali - is finally getting a treatment!
I talk about his life, some of his teachings, ideas and legacy and discuss some common misconceptions and opinions about him today.
Sources/Further Reading:
- Al-Ghazali - "Deliverance from Error" (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal). Translated by Richard J. McCarthy. American University of Beirut.
- al-Ghazali - "The Incoherence of the Philosophers". Translated by Michael E. Marmura. Islamic Translations Series. University of Chicago Press.
- al-Ghazali - "The Niche of Lights". Translated by David Buchman. Islamic Translations Series. University of Chicago Press.
- Leaman, Oliver (2008). "The developed kalam tradition". In "The Cambridge Companion to Islamic Theology". Edited by Tim Winter. Cambridge University Press.
- Lumbard, Joseph E.B. (2016). "Ahmad al-Ghazali, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love". Suny Press.
- Mamura, Michael E. (2005). "Al-Ghazali". In "The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy". Edited by Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor. Cambridge University Press.
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