The Niche of Lights (Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series)

DIVAbu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's philosophical explorations covered nearly the entire spectrum of twelfth-century beliefs. Beginning his career as a skeptic, he ended it as a scholar of mysticism and orthodoxy. iThe Niche of Lights/i, written near the end of his illustrious career, advances the philosophically important idea that reason can serve as a connection between the devout and God. Al-Ghazali argues that abstracting God from the world, as he believed theologians did, was not sufficient for understanding. Exploring the boundary between philosophy and theology, iThe Niche of Lights/i seeks to understand the role of reality in the perception of the spiritual.BRBR/div