PM161. Al-Ghazali on
Divine Predicates and Their Properties
By Abdu-r-Rahman Abu Zayd, Tr.,
14 cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages 148.
In Islam, the question of the Divine Attributes has been treated from
various perspectives. In the beginning it was viewed primarily as a semantic
and metaphysical problem. A later introduction, its logical aspect, however,
was its most important side. The translator attempts to treat the problem
with this logical aspect predominantly in mind. Limited both by the scope
of this work and by the task of bringing this vast material into reasonable
compass, he confines himself to the treatment of the problem as it unfolds
itself in Islamic Peripatetic thought, and the Ash'arite school, with Ghazali
being the major representative of the latter. He tests the validity of
some of Ghazali's statements in Iqtisad against the former schools
and findings in Plato and Aristotle.
ISBN NO. 969-432-137-9.