Al-Ghazali and the Ismailis —— A Debate on Reason and Authority in Medieval Islam

----- 加扎利和伊斯梅利斯:中世纪伊斯兰教中的理性与权威之争

ISBN: 9781860647925 出版年：2001 页码：153 Farouk Mitha Bloomsbury Publishing

Al-Ghazali (1058-1111CE) is arguably one of the most influential thinker in the history of Islam and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in the West that those of any other Muslim scholar. This study explores an important dimension of his thought that has not yet been fully examined, namely, his polemical engagement with the Ismailis of the Fatimid and early Alamut period. Al-Ghazali wrote several texts in refutation of the Ismailis, of which the most detailed, is the Kitab al-Mustaahiri. The author examines the key themes and arguments in this text, and analyses the ways in which al-Ghazali was influenced by the Ismailis. Al-Ghazali's debate with the Ismailis constitutes and important chapter in the history of Muslim thought and this book also explores the wider intellectual and political significance of this encounter, and especially the light it sheds on the central tensions and questions of the age in which al-Ghazali lived.