Degree

BS (Social Sciences & Liberal Arts)

Faculty / School

School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS)

Department

Department of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts

Date of Award

Fall 2023

Date of Submission

2023-09-22

Advisor

Dr. Moiz Hasan, Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Project Type

SSLA Culminating Experience

Access Type

Restricted Access

Keywords

Ghazali, Rationality, Religion

Abstract

Like a crescent moon that shines brightly in the darkest of nights, Imaam Ghazali has lit up the world through his exemplary works. One such work is the “Tahafut al-Falasifa,” translated as “The Incoherence of the Philosophers”. This book has mistakenly given credit with bringing the end of science in Islamic societies, but it is evident that neither does it counter science nor logic, rather the philosophy of science and logic. As Hamza Tzortzis explains in his book, “The Divine Reality: Allah, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism, “Islamic Scholar Al-Ghazali presents an eloquent summary of the implications of God having a will.” (Page 117, Tzortzis) This Will of God results in human sciences, which continued long after Ghazali’s book. However, his book predicted a divide between the deeply entangled arenas of science and Islam, which came to be. Hamza Tzortzis, on the other hand, later theorized how it is impossible to ‘do science’ without God because God is the origin of all reasoning and rationality.

Pages

vi, 39

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