Averroës’ Takfīr of al-Ghazālı̄: Ta’wīl and Causal Kufr
Al-Ghazālı̄ famously claims in the Incoherence of the Philosophers that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are unbelievers because they hold philosophical positions that conflict with Islam. What is less well-known, however, is that Averroës claims in the Decisive Treatise that al-Fārābī and Avicenna ar...
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oai:doaj.org-article:e4ac9054e71343e4b5034fba363899322021-12-02T18:18:41ZAverroës’ Takfīr of al-Ghazālı̄: Ta’wīl and Causal Kufr10.35632/ajis.v38i1-2.7352690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/e4ac9054e71343e4b5034fba363899322021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/735https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741Al-Ghazālı̄ famously claims in the Incoherence of the Philosophers that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are unbelievers because they hold philosophical positions that conflict with Islam. What is less well-known, however, is that Averroës claims in the Decisive Treatise that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are not unbelievers; rather, al-Ghazālı̄ is the true unbeliever for writing the Incoherence of the Philosophers. In this paper, my aim is to present a sustained reconstruction of Averroës’ legal and philosophical argument for why al-Ghazālı̄ is an unbeliever. The crux of Averroës’ argument is that al-Ghazālı̄ has expressed false allegorical interpretations of scripture to unqualified persons, which has caused them to fall into unbelief. By being causally responsible for other people’s unbelief, al-Ghazālı̄ is an unbeliever as well. Saja ParvizianInternational Institute of Islamic Thoughtarticleal-GhazaliIbn RushdIbn SinaPhilosophy of ReligionKufrIncoherence of the PhilosophersIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 38, Iss 1-2 (2021) |
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Al-Ghazālı̄ famously claims in the Incoherence of the Philosophers that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are unbelievers because they hold philosophical positions that conflict with Islam. What is less well-known, however, is that Averroës claims in the Decisive Treatise that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are not unbelievers; rather, al-Ghazālı̄ is the true unbeliever for writing the Incoherence of the Philosophers. In this paper, my aim is to present a sustained reconstruction of Averroës’ legal and philosophical argument for why al-Ghazālı̄ is an unbeliever. The crux of Averroës’ argument is that al-Ghazālı̄ has expressed false allegorical interpretations of scripture to unqualified persons, which has caused them to fall into unbelief. By being causally responsible for other people’s unbelief, al-Ghazālı̄ is an unbeliever as well.
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