The Man who Obliterated Intellectual Thought in the Arab World Islam was not always a despicably intolerant religion. Indeed, from 800-1100 Bagdad was the intellectual capital of the world. But then a guy name Abū Ḥāmed Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, or "Al-Ghazali" for short, came on board and then, as they say "the sh*t hit the fan". Al-Ghazali lived from 1058 to 1111. During that time span he managed to completely disassemble all intellectual thought in the Arab world and, through the religion of Islam, transform the Arab people from leaders of intellectual philosophical and theological thought into a bunch of intolerant thoughtless automatons dedicated to sufism, Shariah Law, and theological occasionalism (the belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present Will of God). His major work titled "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" marked a major turn in Islamic epistemology. Al-Ghazali bitterly denounced Aristotle, Socrates and other Greek writers as non-believers and labeled those who employed their methods and ideas as corrupters of the Islamic faith. His works also strengthened the status of Sunni Islam against other schools. He was a one-man wrecking crew that gave the world those loveable mindless insects called "Wahabi".
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:20:30 +0000
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