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unacceptable, because they tended to contradict principles essential to the daily
life of believing Muslims. The achievement of al-Ghazali was to master
their
technique of thinking-mainly Aristotelian logic-and then, making use of that, to
judge it in the fashion of the basis of Islamic theology, incorporating what is
acceptable of the Neoplatonists‟ teaching as was compatible with Islam, and to
expose the logical weakness and erros of the rest of their philosophy. The fusion
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of Greek philosophical techniques with Islamic dogma which had been partly
accomplished by some of them was thus in essence completed, though the
working-out was left to al-Ghazali‟s successors. Undoubtedly al-Ghazali well-
done in judging much as of these Neoplatonists.
(3) Those whom al-Ghazali calls the party of ta’lim or `authoritative instruction‟
(also known as Isma`iliyah and Batiniyah) held that truth is to be attained not by
reason but by accepting the pronouncements of the infallible leader (Imam). The
life of believing Muslims. The achievement of al-Ghazali was to master
their
technique of thinking-mainly Aristotelian logic-and then, making use of that, to
judge it in the fashion of the basis of Islamic theology, incorporating what is
acceptable of the Neoplatonists‟ teaching as was compatible with Islam, and to
expose the logical weakness and erros of the rest of their philosophy. The fusion
4
of Greek philosophical techniques with Islamic dogma which had been partly
accomplished by some of them was thus in essence completed, though the
working-out was left to al-Ghazali‟s successors. Undoubtedly al-Ghazali well-
done in judging much as of these Neoplatonists.
(3) Those whom al-Ghazali calls the party of ta’lim or `authoritative instruction‟
(also known as Isma`iliyah and Batiniyah) held that truth is to be attained not by
reason but by accepting the pronouncements of the infallible leader (Imam). The