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sufficiently adapted to
Islamic monotheism for them to claim to be Muslims. The achievement of Al-Ghazali was
to master the
philosophers technique of thinking -mainly Aristotelian logic- and then, subject it to itself and
to his originality
and find its internal errors, relying on the proof and logic of Divinity. The conflict
of Greek philosophical
techniques with Islamic theology, was in fact not fair and quite lopsided, in which
the masters of Muslim
theologian, led by Ghazali, put these techniques in their place if not to shame! Undoubtedly,
Al-Ghazali did
well in judging much of Greek Philosophy and Neo-Platonists.
Those whom Al-Ghazali calls the party of ta’lim or academia (authoritative instruction) such as
Isma`iliyah
and Batiniyah in his time, and in our time the academic secularism that replaces the revelation by
manmade
metaphysical doctrines, like Psychology and the like.
Islamic monotheism for them to claim to be Muslims. The achievement of Al-Ghazali was
to master the
philosophers technique of thinking -mainly Aristotelian logic- and then, subject it to itself and
to his originality
and find its internal errors, relying on the proof and logic of Divinity. The conflict
of Greek philosophical
techniques with Islamic theology, was in fact not fair and quite lopsided, in which
the masters of Muslim
theologian, led by Ghazali, put these techniques in their place if not to shame! Undoubtedly,
Al-Ghazali did
well in judging much of Greek Philosophy and Neo-Platonists.
Those whom Al-Ghazali calls the party of ta’lim or academia (authoritative instruction) such as
Isma`iliyah
and Batiniyah in his time, and in our time the academic secularism that replaces the revelation by
manmade
metaphysical doctrines, like Psychology and the like.