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Review article

https://doi.org/10.21464/sp31209

Al-Ghazali, Skepticism and Islam

Snježana Veljačić-Akpınar ; Dharma Realm Buddhist University, City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, 4951 Bodhi Way, Ukiah Campus, CA 95482, USA


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Abstract

The author of this short paper examines the issue of skepticism with special interest for Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s case, well-documented in his own autobiography, linking it with René Descartes. In his case, Sufism became a new more harmonius methodical approach to knowledge and the solution to the problem of attaining “a clear discernible perception”, i.e. for excluding dogmatism from theological discourse by rational means.

Keywords

Al-Ghazali; René Descartes; doubt; search for a ‘Criterion for Truth’; dogmatic authoritarianism (ta’lim)

Hrčak ID:

185359

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185359

Publication date:

14.2.2017.

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