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Although Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali lived a comparatively brief existence (1058-1111), he tested himself as essentially the most vital thinkers within the background of Islam. The Incoherence of the Philosophers, written after greater than a decade of go back and forth and ascetic contemplation, contends that whereas such Muslim philosophers as Avicenna boasted of unassailable arguments on issues of theology and metaphysics, they can no longer convey on their claims; furthermore, lots of their assertions represented disguised heresy and unbelief. regardless of its tried refutation by way of the twelfth-century thinker Ibn Rushd, al-Ghazali's paintings continues to be largely learn and influential.

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