On Ghazālīan Epistemology: A Theory

Journal of Islamic Philosophy 4:51-68 (2008)
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This work examines, through al-Munqidh, the ways and reasons of al-Ghazālī’s association with skepticism. Was he a skeptic on a Humean model, what was his approach to human knowledge, and what is the nature of al-Ghazālī’s critique of rational knowledge?

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10.5840/islamicphil2008417

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