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Imam Al Ghazali’s ‘skepticism and rationalist thought’: a philosophical analysis

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dc.contributor.author Nesan, Pulenthiran
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-10T06:46:31Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-10T06:46:31Z
dc.date.issued 2018-11-29
dc.identifier.citation 5th International Symposium. 29 November 2018. Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Oluvil, Sri Lanka, pp. 89-95. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-955-627-135-5
dc.identifier.uri http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3448
dc.description.abstract The historical scholars describe the middle age as the dark period. During this period there were no development in the literature, arts, culture, civilization thought and living standard. This middle age period lasted from the fall of Romanian empire (A.C 5th century) and white revival period (15th century). There were no improvement in people’s thoughts for about ten centuries. The world was immersed in religion without any scientific thoughts. This research analysis the ideology thoughts of Imam Al Ghazali, one of the most predominant Islamic philosopher lived in the medieval philosophy. The main problem in this research is to find out how the philosophical knowledge is possible in the medieval philosophy period. Hypothesis of this research are re-birth of Greek Thoughts, Islamic Philosophy was contributed to Renaisance, Ghazali expressed wisdom via skepticism.The aim of this research are examirify the contribution of Islamic philosophy and analysing the ways of obtaining knowledge through Ghazali’s thoughts. The secondary data were collected from magazines, research papers, and other related articles. The collected data were analysed using descriptive analysis method. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.subject Middle age en_US
dc.subject Philosophy en_US
dc.subject Ghazali en_US
dc.subject Skepticism en_US
dc.title Imam Al Ghazali’s ‘skepticism and rationalist thought’: a philosophical analysis en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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