An Ottoman Commentary Tradition on Ghazālī’s Tahāfut al-falāsifa. Preliminary Observations*

Ghazālī’s “The incoherence of the philosophers” spurred a counter-commentary by Ibn Rushd, as is well known. Up to ten texts from Ottoman scholars also purport to be commentaries on the Tahāfut, constituting a commentary tradition that has been neglected by scholars. The first two commentators, Khoj...

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Main Author: Lit, L. W. C. van (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Oriens
Year: 2015, Volume: 43, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 368-413
Further subjects:B Khojazāda
B Ibn Kamāl Pāshā
B Commentaries / glosses
B Post-classical Islamic philosophy
B God’s knowledge of particulars
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Summary:Ghazālī’s “The incoherence of the philosophers” spurred a counter-commentary by Ibn Rushd, as is well known. Up to ten texts from Ottoman scholars also purport to be commentaries on the Tahāfut, constituting a commentary tradition that has been neglected by scholars. The first two commentators, Khojazāda (d. 1488) and ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 1482), are not line-by-line exegetes of Ghazālī, but rather update the discussions that Ghazālī broached to the level of knowledge available to them. Khojazāda was favored by the Ottomans, but ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn’s content, methodology and argumentation style proves to be just as, if not more, interesting for us.
ISSN:1877-8372
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18778372-04303004