HoP 147 - Laying Down the Law – Ibn Hazm and Islamic Legal Theory
October 27th, 2013
The development of Islamic law and jurisprudence (fiqh), and the many-sided output of the legal theorist Ibn Ḥazm.
HoP 146 - Philosophy’s Reign in Spain - Andalusia
October 20th, 2013
The flowering of philosophy among Muslims and Jews in al-Andalus (Muslim-controlled Spain and Portugal).
HoP 145 - Frank Griffel on al-Ghazali
October 13th, 2013
Why did al-Ghazālī judge "the philosophers" to be apostates? Peter finds out from Frank Griffel.
HoP 144 - Miracle Worker - al-Ghazali against the Philosophers
October 6th, 2013
In his “Incoherence of the Philosophers,” al-Ghazālī attacks Avicenna’s theories about the eternity of the universe and insists on the possibility of miracles.
