AL-GHAZZALI’S PRINCIPLES OF SUFI HERMENEUTICS
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2016-12-3-53-64
Abstract
The article deals with Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali’s principles of interpretation of Quran (tafsir). Al-Ghazzali criticizes traditionalist approach, which implies that every interpretation outside the verbal or scriptural tradition is wrong. Al-Ghazzali maintains that genuinely universalistic vision is sufi vision, which implies that Quran is always actualized in present moment, is addressed to faithful man and as divine attribute has fathomless profound. Quran is an ocean of knowledge without shore. Man could plunge into it if he opened his hearth for the light of God. If he hasn’t done that, he is situated on the periphery of Quran. In his works al-Ghazzali gives theological and legal argumentation for the sufi mystical approach. He also analyzes explicit and implicit principles of Quranic recitation. Al-Ghazzali’s sufi hermeneutics represents original phenomenon in the history of Islamic thought.
About the Author
D. V. Mukhetdinov
Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University (11/1, Mohovaya str., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation), Islamic Research Center of Moscow Islamic Institute (12, Pr. Kirova, Moscow, 1250009, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Polit.), senior fellow at the Department of Arabic Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; head of the Islamic Research Center of Moscow Islamic Institute
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For citations:
Mukhetdinov D.V. AL-GHAZZALI’S PRINCIPLES OF SUFI HERMENEUTICS. Islam in the modern world. 2016;12(3):53-64. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2016-12-3-53-64
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