{"product_id":"23317-tahafut-al-falasifah-incoherence-of-the-philosophers","title":"Tahafut-Al-Falasifah - Incoherence of the Philosophers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Imam Al-Ghazali\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s)\/ Edito: Sahib Ahmad Kamali \/ Prof. Ehsan Ashraf\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Adam Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2010\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 270\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8174355553\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSufism started as a reaction against formalism pursued by the theologians and the masses, intellectualism of the philosophers and the rationalists and the irreligious ways of the ruling classes. Generally, Sufism was based on the Qur’an and lives of the Prophet and his companions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore, A-Ghazali Sufism passed through three stages of development. The Sufis were ascetics and quietists at the first stage. The second stage of development of Sufism was theosophical. The third stage of Sufism was prominently pantheistic in nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGhazali was the greatest figure in the history of Islamic reaction to Neo-Plantonism and despite Ibn Rushd’s refutation of Ghazali’s objection; he dealt a blow to Islamic philosophy from which it would never recover. Ghazali struck a fatal blow from his ‘Incoherence of the philosophers (1095), a withering attack on Arabic philosophy, particularly as exemplified in Aristotle by Farabi and Ibn Sina. It was only after he had thoroughly immersed himself in the teachings of falasifa and even published an exposition of their tenets in ‘Intentions of the Philosophers’ that he felt equipped to defeat the philosopher on their own grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProblems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of the philosophers belief in the Eternity of the \u003cbr\u003eWorld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their belief in the everlasting nature of the world, \u003cbr\u003eTime and motion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf their dishonest in saying that God is the agent and the \u003cbr\u003emaker of the world which is His action or product: and the\u003cbr\u003eExplanation of the fact that these words have only a metaphorical,\u003cbr\u003eNot real, significance to them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo show their inability to prove the existence of the creator\u003cbr\u003eOf the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf their inability to prove by rational arguments that God is \u003cbr\u003eOne, and that it not possible to suppose two necessary\u003cbr\u003eBeings each of which is uncaused\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their denial of the Divine Attributes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their thesis that is impossible that something\u003cbr\u003eShould share a genus with God, being separated from Him\u003cbr\u003eBy differentia; and that the intellectual division into genus\u003cbr\u003eAnd differentia is inapplicable to Him\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their thesis that God’s is simple being - i.e., it \u003cbr\u003eIs pure being, without a quiddity or essence to which \u003cbr\u003eExistence would be related - and that necessary existence is\u003cbr\u003eTo Him what quddity is to any other being\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf their inability to prove by rational arguments that God is \u003cbr\u003eNot body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf their inability to prove by rational arguments that there\u003cbr\u003eIs a cause or creator of the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of those philosophers who hold that God knows \u003cbr\u003eThe Other, and that He knows the species and genera in a\u003cbr\u003eUniversal manner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo show their inability to prove that God knows Himself\u003cbr\u003eEither\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their doctrine that God (May He be exalted\u003cbr\u003eAbove what they say) does not know the particulars which \u003cbr\u003eAre divisible in accordance with the division of time into\u003cbr\u003e‘will be,’ ‘was,’ and ‘is’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo show their inability to prove that the heaven is living,\u003cbr\u003eAnd obeys God through its rotatory motion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of what they consider to be the purpose which \u003cbr\u003eMoves the heaven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their theory that the souls of the heavens are \u003cbr\u003eAware of all particulars, which originate in the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their belief in the impossibility of a departure\u003cbr\u003eFrom the natural course of events\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf their inability to give a rational demonstration of their\u003cbr\u003eTheory that the human soul is a spiritual substance which\u003cbr\u003eExists in itself; is not space-filling; is not body, or impressed \u003cbr\u003eupon body; and is neither connected nor Disconnected with \u003cbr\u003ebody - as God is neither inside the world Nor outside it, or \u003cbr\u003eas the angels are\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their thesis that, having come into being, the \u003cbr\u003eHuman souls cannot be destroyed; and that their everlasting\u003cbr\u003eNature makes it impossible for us to conceive other\u003cbr\u003eDestruction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefutation of their denial of the resurrection of bodies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Imam Al-Ghazali \/ Adam Publishers \/ Paperback","offer_id":40785712611497,"sku":"23317","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/23317.jpg?v=1625527008","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/23317-tahafut-al-falasifah-incoherence-of-the-philosophers","provider":"India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}