Omschrijving
Islam and Rationality offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism, and how his work was received by later Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars.
Georges Tamer, PhD (2000), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published extensively on the Qurʾān, Qurʾānic hermeneutics, Arabic philosophy and its reception in modern times, rational discourses in Islam, and interreligious relationships. Frank Griffel, PhD (1999), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University, New Haven, USA. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Islamic thought, Islamic theology, and Arabic and Islamic philosophy, including Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Theology (New York 2009).