Aristotle’s influence on Muslim Philosophy and Al-Ghazali's flight to Sufism By MASARRAT HUSAIN ZUBERI, Books and Documents, NewAgeIslam.com

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Aristotle’s influence on Muslim Philosophy and Al-Ghazali's flight to Sufism By MASARRAT HUSAIN ZUBERI

ARISTOTLE 384-322 BC AND AL GHAZALI 1058-1111 AD

By MASARRAT HUSAIN ZUBERI

The general 'theme of such accusation is that in his enthusiastic defence of religion, Al-Ghazali, unintentionally, shut the door to scientific enquiry. "The mystic way of the Sufi prescribed is incompatible with rational methods of science" and the accusation takes another form that "the Muslims, unfortunately, followed Al-Ghazali, and neglected, little by little, the study of sciences. Their once great civilization faded. On the other hand Ibn Rushd defended sciences and medieval Europe followed the way prescribed by him to attain it. This is the true spirit of Latin Averroeism which led to the rise of European Science.[1]

This calumny first propagated in the West has, unfortunately, been taken up as a refrain by Muslim scholars of the present [2] day as well.

I have, in all humility, attempted putting him in his correct historical perspective to defend Al-Ghazali against this persistent Calumny.

Though Averroeism became a symbol of intellectual revolt in the 13th-14th Century Europe, Al-Ghazali's own [3] influence cannot be ignored or belittled.

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