June 2013
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Illness, enlightenment, salvation: on al-Ghazali and Deutsch
Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) was a Persian mystic philosopher, and wrote the Deliverance from Error as a kind of intellectual autobiography, while at the same time an argument for sufism. (A student gave me the book after sitting through my epistemology class, probably thinking (a) I’d like it, and (b) I could use the help.) Its similarities… Continue reading