Abstract
Abstract In his famous treatise “The ultimate scope in the explanation of the meanings of God’s beautiful names” (al-Maqṣad al-asnā fī šarḥ maʿānī asmāʾ Allāh al-ḥusnā), al-Ġazālī (d. 1111) presents a broad introduction on the concept of “name”. As is well known, the topic of the names of God represents an important moment in Muslim theology and mysticism. The argument uses philosophical concepts, starting from the discussion about the relationship between name and named subject. These concepts can be traced directly to the tradition of the commentaries on Aristotle’s De interpretatione (Περὶ ἑρµηνείας), which allowed al-Ġazālī to provide a logic-semantic solution to the identity between name and named subject, and subtends his indebtedness to the Peripatetic tradition.
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