The Incoherence of the Philosophers
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The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahafut al-Falasifa) is the title of a landmark polemic in Islamic philosophy by the Sufi sympathetic Imam Al-Ghazali of the Asharite school against the neoplatonic school of thought in Islamic Philosophy. Philosophers like Ibn Sina and Al Farabi are denounced in this book. The text was dramatically successful, and marked a milestone in the ascendance of the Asharite school within Islamic philosophy and theological discourse.
The late 11th century book brings out contradictions in the thoughts of philosophers about God and the universe, favoring faith instead. In some ways, it can be seen as a precursor to Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) attempted a reductio ad absurdum of Al-Ghazali's work, the Incoherence of the Incoherence (Tahafut-al-Tahafut), although the text was not so well received by the wider Islamic audience.
External links
- Aristotelianism in Islamic philosophy
- The Incoherence of the Philosophers 1963 English translation by S. A. Kamali.
- The Incoherence of the Incoherence translation by Simon van den Bergh.
