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them.
Though not common knowledge in the West, without Ghazali, the
endeavor of influential leading philosophers of the renaissance such as
Descartes, Jean Jacques Roseau, and the like would not exist. In fact,
Descartes introduces his discussions in a manner following Al-Ghazali,
without mentioning al-Ghazali. Looking for “necessary” truths, Descartes
came, like al-Ghazali, to doubt the infallibility of sense-perception, and to
rest his philosophy rather on principles which are intuitively certain. But
Ghazali had far superior spiritual and ethical qualities not to mention a path
to spiritual reality, and far reaching global balance and so Al-Ghazali
classified and addressed the various seekers of truth of his time into four
distinct groups: Theologians, Philosophers, Authoritarians, and Mystics.
Scholastic theology had already achieved a fair degree of elaboration in
the defense of Islamic traditions, as a perusal of al-Irshad by al-Juwayni,
(translated into French), will show. Al-Ghazali had been brought up in this
Though not common knowledge in the West, without Ghazali, the
endeavor of influential leading philosophers of the renaissance such as
Descartes, Jean Jacques Roseau, and the like would not exist. In fact,
Descartes introduces his discussions in a manner following Al-Ghazali,
without mentioning al-Ghazali. Looking for “necessary” truths, Descartes
came, like al-Ghazali, to doubt the infallibility of sense-perception, and to
rest his philosophy rather on principles which are intuitively certain. But
Ghazali had far superior spiritual and ethical qualities not to mention a path
to spiritual reality, and far reaching global balance and so Al-Ghazali
classified and addressed the various seekers of truth of his time into four
distinct groups: Theologians, Philosophers, Authoritarians, and Mystics.
Scholastic theology had already achieved a fair degree of elaboration in
the defense of Islamic traditions, as a perusal of al-Irshad by al-Juwayni,
(translated into French), will show. Al-Ghazali had been brought up in this