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The Incoherence of the Philosophers: Ṭahāfut al-Falāsifah
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ISBN13: 9798251494488
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Incoherence of the Philosophers stands as one of the most formidable intellectual confrontations in the history of human thought. In this masterwork, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī engages the philosophical tradition not with rejection born of ignorance, but with a penetrating intelligence that masters its language, inhabits its assumptions, and then dismantles it from within.
This English translation seeks to render al-Ghazālī's prose with both fidelity and literary elegance, preserving the sharp precision of his arguments while conveying the moral gravity and rhetorical power that have made the work endure for nearly a millennium. The text unfolds as a rigorous examination of metaphysics, causality, time, knowledge, and divine agency, challenging the philosophical systems inherited from Greek thought and adopted by Muslim philosophers such as Avicenna and al-Fārābī.
Yet this is not merely a polemical treatise. It is a meditation on the limits of human reason and the peril of intellectual arrogance. Al-Ghazālī exposes what he perceives as the fractures within speculative philosophy, not to silence reason, but to restore it to its proper domain. His critique is methodical, ironic, and often devastating, revealing contradictions where certainty was claimed and contingency where necessity was presumed.
More profoundly, The Incoherence of the Philosophers is a work about epistemic humility. It asks enduring questions: What can reason truly know? Where does certainty end and conjecture begin? And how should the human intellect comport itself before the mystery of existence? These questions resonate far beyond their medieval context, speaking with startling relevance to modern debates in philosophy, theology, and the philosophy of science.
This translation invites the English-speaking reader into a conversation that has shaped civilizations. It presents al-Ghazālī not as an antagonist of philosophy, but as one of its most exacting critics-an intellect of rare depth whose legacy continues to provoke, unsettle, and illuminate.
Yet this is not merely a polemical treatise. It is a meditation on the limits of human reason and the peril of intellectual arrogance. Al-Ghazālī exposes what he perceives as the fractures within speculative philosophy, not to silence reason, but to restore it to its proper domain. His critique is methodical, ironic, and often devastating, revealing contradictions where certainty was claimed and contingency where necessity was presumed.
More profoundly, The Incoherence of the Philosophers is a work about epistemic humility. It asks enduring questions: What can reason truly know? Where does certainty end and conjecture begin? And how should the human intellect comport itself before the mystery of existence? These questions resonate far beyond their medieval context, speaking with startling relevance to modern debates in philosophy, theology, and the philosophy of science.
This translation invites the English-speaking reader into a conversation that has shaped civilizations. It presents al-Ghazālī not as an antagonist of philosophy, but as one of its most exacting critics-an intellect of rare depth whose legacy continues to provoke, unsettle, and illuminate.
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