The Experience of Al-Ghazali in Logic
Ibraheem M. Al-Masri, 3rd Facutly of Education, Damascus Universtiy,Daraa, Syria
Abstract
This study focuses on the characteristics of Al-Ghazali's point of view in logic. Al-Ghazali attempted to formulate changes in logic with the intention of constructing it to be acceptable within Arabic-Islamic culture. Al-Ghazali's vision presented in many of his books throughout two stages. In the first stage, Al-Ghazali tried to show that logic is not used only by the Greeks and philosophers or by a certain nation; He considers it as an approach in every field of knowledge and science. In the second stage, Al-Ghazali had constructed a new structure of language in logic. Additionally, he tried to eliminate the Aristotelian metaphysical concepts, which are in contradictory with Islamic religious beliefs. At the same time, he derived from the Holy Quran the criterions, which make logic useful in theology as well as in the perceptual sciences.Al-Ghazali's project had been miscarried by his followers and was not adopted by any group of thinkers after him.