Al-Ghazālī’s Classifications of the Sciences and Descriptions of the Highest Theoretical Science (original) (raw)

Dîvân: Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi 16.1 (30) (2011): 1-32

The present study offers a comprehensive survey of al-Ghazali's classifications of the sciences and descriptions of the highest theoretical science, called the "science of un-* Works by al-Ghazali are abbreviated as follows: Arba'in = Kitab al- Arba'in fi usul al-din, ed. 'A.'A. 'Urwani and M.B. al-Shaqfa, Dar al-qalam, Damascus 1424/2003; Faysal = Faysal al-tafriqa bayn al-islam wa-l-zandaqa, ed. Mahmud Biju, Damascus 1993/1413 Ihya' = Ihya' 'ulum al-din, 5 vols., al-Maktaba al-tawfiqiyya, Cairo n.d.; Iljam = Iljam al-'awamm 'an 'ilm al-kalam, in: Majmu'at Rasa'il al-Imam al-Ghazali, ed. Ibrahim Amin Muhammad, al-Maktaba al-Tawfiqiya, Cairo n.d., pp. 319-355; Imla' = al-Imla' fi ishkalat al-Ihya', appended to Ihya', V:282-326; Iqtisad = al-Iqtisad fi al-i'tiqad, ed. I.A. Çubukçu and H. Atay, Ankara 1962; Jawahir = Jawahir al-Qur'an, ed. Rashid Rida al-Qabbani, Dar ihya' al-'ulum, Beirut 1411/1990; Kimiya = Kimiya-ye sa'adat, ed. Hoseyn Khadiv Jam, 2 vols., Sherkat-e Entesharat-e 'elmi va farhangi, Tehran 1383sh/2004; Laduniya = al-Risala al-Laduniya, Maragha MS, facsimile edition in: Nasrollah Pourjavady, Majmu'e-ye falsafi-ye Maraghe, Markaz-e Nashre daneshgahi, Tehran 1380sh/2001, pp. 100-120; Makatib = Makatib-e farsi-ye Ghazzali be-nam-e Fada'il al-anam min rasa'il Hujjat al-islam, ed. 'Abbas Eqbal, Tehran 1333sh/1954; Maqasid = Maqasid al-falasifa, ed. M.S. al-Kurdi, Cairo 1355/1936; Maqsad = al-Maqsad al-asna fi sharh ma'ani asma' Allah al-Husna, ed. F.A. Shehadi, Beirut 1971; Mishkat = al-Ghazali, The Niche of Lights, ed. and tr. D. Buchman, Brigham Young University Press, Provo, UT 1998; Mi'yar = Mantiq Tahafut al-falasifa almusamma Mi'yar al-'ilm, ed. S. Dunya, Dar al-ma'arif, Cairo 1961; Mizan = Mizan al-'amal, ed. S. Dunya, Cairo 1964; Munqidh = al-Munqidh min 2 Alexander TREIGER Dîvân 2 0 1 1 / 1 2 veiling" in the Revival of the Religious Sciences and the "science of the cognition of God" in the Jewels of the Qur'an.