Al-Ghazali, skepticism and Islam

Abstract

The author of this short paper examines the issue of skepticism with special interest for Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's case, well-documented in his own autobiography, linking it with René Descartes. In his case, Sufism became a new more harmonius methodical approach to knowledge and the solution to the problem of attaining "a clear discernible perception", i.e. for excluding dogmatism from theological discourse by rational means.