Political Philosophy of Al-Ghazali

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Caliphate/Imamate; Sultanate; authority and power; fiqh; state and religion; caliph; imam; sultan

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the major issues of the political philosophy of the prominent medieval philosopher of the Muslim East al-Ghazali (1058 - 1111). It is exactly the consideration of both the historical circumstances and political practice of the state (Caliphate / Imamate) of his days that allowed al-Ghazali to re-examine the traditional Sunni dogma of combining the authority and power, and to take a different look at the nature of the state in his teaching about the Imamate, which differed both from the model found during the reign of the Prophet and the Rashidun Caliphs, and from al-Ghazali’s predecessors and contemporaries among the fuqaha (the Islamic jurists) and ulama (the scholars of Islamic doctrine and law).

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nur Kirabaev
AU  - Maythem Al-Janabi
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Political Philosophy of Al-Ghazali
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 61
EP  - 64
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.16
DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.16
ID  - Kirabaev2019/07
ER  -