Islam and Rationality offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism, and how his work was received by later Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars.

Table of Contents Georges Tamer Introduction Hans Daiber God versus Causality: al-Ghazālī’s Solution and its Historical Background Wilferd Madelung Al-Ghazālī’s Changing Attitude to philosophy Binyamin Abrahamov Al-Ghazālī and the Rationalization of Sufism Georges Tamer Revelation, Sciences and Symbolism: Al-Ghazālī’s Jawāhir al-Qurʾān Frank Griffel Al-Ghazālī at His Most Rationalist: The Universal Rule for Allegorically Interpreting Revelation (al-Qānūn al-kullī fī t-taʾwīl) Eric Ormsby The Comedy of Reason: Strategies of Humour in al-Ghazālī Taneli Kukkonen Al-Ghazālī on the Emotions Avner Giladi Sex, Marriage and the Family in Al-Ghazālī’s Thought: Some Preliminary Notes Yasien Mohamed The Duties of the Teacher: al-Iṣfahānī’s Dharīʿa as a source of inspiration for al-Ghazālī’s Mīzān al-ʿamal Ken Garden Revisiting al-Ghazālī’s Crisis through his Scale for Action (Mizān al-ʿamal) Luis Xavier López-Farjeat Al-Ghazālī on Knowledge (‘ilm) and Certainty (yaqīn) in al-Munqidh min aḍ-ḍalāl and in al-Qisṭās al-mustaqīm Scott Girdner Ghazālī’s hermeneutics and their reception in Jewish Tradition: Mishkāt al-Anwār (The Niche of Lights) and Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim (Eight Chapters) Alfred Ivry Al-Ghazālī, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation Steven Harvey The Changing Image of al-Ghazālī in Medieval Jewish Thought Hidemi Takahashi The Influence of al-Ghazālī on the Juridical, Theological and Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus Jules Janssens R. Marti and His References to al-Ghazālī Yahya M. Michot Al-Ghazālī’s Esotericism according to Ibn Taymiyya’s Bughyat al-Murtād M. Sait Özervarlı Arbitrating between al-Ghazālī and the Philosophers: The Tahāfut Commentaries in the Ottoman Intellectual Context Bibliography