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This text marks a radical rethinking of the soul and the afterlife in the writings of al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111), particularly within his magnum opus, Reviving Religious Knowledge (Ihyā’ulūm al-dīn). Attending closely to variations of genre and discourse mode within his works, it attempts to resolve some of the major ambiguities that have vexed al-Ghazālī’s readers for nearly nine hundred years.
Beginning with his theory of multi-level, multi-genre writing and working through his theological, philosophical, and mystical positions on the soul’s true nature, the study culminates in an exploration of al-Ghazālī’s mystical “psycho-cosmology”, where some startling conclusions are drawn regarding his most intimate thoughts on the “secrets” of the soul and the Hereafter.
Meticulously researched and yet engagingly written, this study speaks to both the specialist and the amateur intellectual historian.
Beginning with his theory of multi-level, multi-genre writing and working through his theological, philosophical, and mystical positions on the soul’s true nature, the study culminates in an exploration of al-Ghazālī’s mystical “psycho-cosmology”, where some startling conclusions are drawn regarding his most intimate thoughts on the “secrets” of the soul and the Hereafter.
Meticulously researched and yet engagingly written, this study speaks to both the specialist and the amateur intellectual historian.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 208
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
13 August 2001
ISBN: 9789004120839
Format: Hardcover
"...this study [...]contains excellent biographies of canonical writers, synopses of their works, and overviews of historial periods...the book represents a contribution to ecumenism by making little-studied Byzantine and Eastern canonical authors more comprehensible to a wider audience and inviting a proper assessment of their work."
Patrick Viscuso, Speculum, 2004.
Patrick Viscuso, Speculum, 2004.
Timothy J. Gianotti, Ph.D. (1998) in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology, University of Toronto, is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Penn State University, where he teaches a variety of courses in Islamic Intellectual History, Mysticism, and Comparative Religion. His primary research interests involve classical Islamic understandings of psychology, epistemology, and eschatology.