Abu Hamid al-Ghazali in Russian Islamology

Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Period

Bibliographic Data

ID21972865
AuthorsI R Nasyrov (Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume16
Issue1
Pages147-160
Publication date2020-04-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIslam in the modern world (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2074-1529 • E-ISSN: 2618-7221
PublisherMedina Publishing Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22311/2074-1529-2020-16-1-147-160
OpenAlexW3016576374
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited1

The article provides a comprehensive picture of the state of research on the thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111), the greatest Islamic jurist, theologian and thinker, in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. The research is important because there is a widespread stereotypical view in the West and Russia that the decline of rationalism in the Muslim world and strengthening of Mysticism is due to al-Ghazali. The first part of the article traces down a number of research projects carried out during the aforementioned period, the dominant research trends and different approaches to al-Ghazali’s thought in general and certain his teachings. The author demonstrates that Soviet and Russian researchers have made a substantial progress in studying the intellectual legacy of al-Ghazali due to forsaking the one-sided approach that prevailed in Marxist Oriental studies during the Soviet era. According to their views, al-Ghazali developed a rationalistic trend of the Islamic Theology (Kalam) and Muslim Peripatetic Philosophy. Studies on al-Ghazali carried out in the late Soviet era and in Post-Soviet Russia will be analyzed in the second part of the paper

Islam · Marxist philosophy · Mysticism · Political science · Rationalism · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious studies

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