Abstract

Modern scholars of medieval philosophy have had access to the work of Abū Ḥâmid Muhammad al-Ghāzalī (1058–1111) since 1933, when Joseph T. Muckle published an edition of the great Muslim theologian'sMaqāsid al-falāsifa(“The Opinions of the Philosophers”). In this work, al-Ghāzalī (known to the West as Algazel) summarized ideas proposed by Avicenna (940–1036) in hisDanesh Nameh.Algazel'sMaqāsid al-falāsifawas composed of three parts, theMetaphysics, Physics, andLogic; medieval authors read and referred to Algazel's work accordingly, as three separate works.

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