Al-Ghazālī

1058 CE – 1111 CElived

Tus, Khorasan

• Kalām
• Sufism

Suffered a breakdown, abandoned the most prestigious chair in the Islamic world, and returned to argue that causation is God’s habit rather than necessity, anticipating Hume by six centuries.

Known for

• occasionalism
• the incoherence of the philosophers
• certainty through experience

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