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
