IMAM GHAZALI'S PHILOSOPHY

 IMAM GHAZALI'S PHILOSOPHY

Ghazali mission was almost apostolic like that of kant in Germany of the 18th century. Ghazali's philosophical scepticism which however went a little too far virtually did the same kind of work in the world of Islam in breaking the back of that proud but shallow rationalism which moved in the same direction as per pre kantian rationalism in Germany. Ghazali , finding no new hope in analytic part move to mystic experience, and their found an independent content for religion. During the last 500 years religious thought in Islam has been practically stationery. Some of the apostles of this movement are born Muslims and one of them tewfik fikret the Turkish poet who died only a short time ago has gone to the extent of using our great poet thinker Mirza Abdul Qadir bedil of Akbarabad for the purposes of this movement.Ghazali based religion on philosophical scepticism a rather unsafe basis for religion and not wholly justified by the spirit of the Quran. Ghazali chief opponent ibn rushd defended Greek philosophy against the rebels, was laid through Aristotle to what is known as the doctrine of immortality of active intellect. Reference :the reconstruction of religious thought in Islam Allama Iqbal

Reference: The Reconstruction of religious thought in Islam - Allama Iqbal