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Al-Ghazali: Inner Knowledge and the Reconciliation of Law and Truth
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ISBN13: 9798241999436
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 31 2025
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 31 2025
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Book Description
Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) is one of the most influential figures in the intellectual and spiritual history of Islam. Jurist, theologian, mystic, and critic of philosophy, he stands at the crossroads of law and inner transformation, reason and revelation, discipline and spiritual realization. His work shaped Sunni Islam at a structural level and continues to challenge modern assumptions about knowledge, faith, and the limits of rational inquiry.
Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) is one of the most influential figures in the intellectual and spiritual history of Islam. Jurist, theologian, mystic, and critic of philosophy, he stands at the crossroads of law and inner transformation, reason and revelation, discipline and spiritual realization. His work shaped Sunni Islam at a structural level and continues to challenge modern assumptions about knowledge, faith, and the limits of rational inquiry.
This book offers a rigorous and balanced introduction to al-Ghazali's thought, presenting him primarily as a Sufi-oriented thinker who sought to reconcile religious law (shari'a) with inner truth (haqiqa) without dissolving either. Rather than isolating doctrines or reducing al-Ghazali to a polemical figure, the volume reconstructs the internal coherence of his project: the crisis of knowledge, the turn toward disciplined spirituality, the synthesis achieved in the Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din, the hierarchy of reason and unveiling, the critique and preservation of philosophy, and the ethical gravity of death and the afterlife.
Written for educated Western readers, the book avoids both apologetics and ideological critique. It combines historical precision, textual analysis, and conceptual clarity, with careful use of Arabic terms, translated and explained in context. Al-Ghazali emerges not as an enemy of reason nor as a formless mystic, but as a thinker of integration, for whom knowledge is inseparable from ethical transformation and spiritual responsibility.
Al-Ghazali: Inner Knowledge and the Reconciliation of Law and Truth is intended for readers interested in Islamic thought, Sufism, philosophy of religion, and the enduring question of how law, intellect, and inner life can form a unified path. About the Author
Roberto Minichini was born in 1973 in Mainz, Germany, to an Italian father from Naples and a Croatian mother from Zagreb. He lives in Gorizia, Italy. He is an Italian poet, writer, and independent scholar with long-standing interests in Islamic intellectual history, metaphysics, spiritual psychology, and comparative religious traditions.
His work focuses on figures and systems of thought that attempt to reconcile discipline and interiority, reason and revelation, ethical form and spiritual depth. Writing for a cultivated readership beyond narrow academic specialization, he approaches religious traditions with sobriety, historical attentiveness, and conceptual rigor, avoiding both polemics and romanticization.
This book reflects his commitment to presenting classical Islamic thought in a way that is intellectually serious, spiritually grounded, and accessible to contemporary readers without sacrificing complexity or coherence.
Written for educated Western readers, the book avoids both apologetics and ideological critique. It combines historical precision, textual analysis, and conceptual clarity, with careful use of Arabic terms, translated and explained in context. Al-Ghazali emerges not as an enemy of reason nor as a formless mystic, but as a thinker of integration, for whom knowledge is inseparable from ethical transformation and spiritual responsibility.
Al-Ghazali: Inner Knowledge and the Reconciliation of Law and Truth is intended for readers interested in Islamic thought, Sufism, philosophy of religion, and the enduring question of how law, intellect, and inner life can form a unified path. About the Author
Roberto Minichini was born in 1973 in Mainz, Germany, to an Italian father from Naples and a Croatian mother from Zagreb. He lives in Gorizia, Italy. He is an Italian poet, writer, and independent scholar with long-standing interests in Islamic intellectual history, metaphysics, spiritual psychology, and comparative religious traditions.
His work focuses on figures and systems of thought that attempt to reconcile discipline and interiority, reason and revelation, ethical form and spiritual depth. Writing for a cultivated readership beyond narrow academic specialization, he approaches religious traditions with sobriety, historical attentiveness, and conceptual rigor, avoiding both polemics and romanticization.
This book reflects his commitment to presenting classical Islamic thought in a way that is intellectually serious, spiritually grounded, and accessible to contemporary readers without sacrificing complexity or coherence.
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