Al-Ghazali: Introduction to the Incoherence

Al-Ghazali has been blamed for singlehandedly stunting the intellectual development of the Muslims. Recent scholarship has found this rather strong accusation to be a false one, and based in part on superficial understandings, not only of his influence but also his intentions in writing the Incoherence of the Philosophers. So what were his intentions in writing it, and how do they bear on the prospect of an intellectually developed Muslim? In this episode, I read and discuss Ghazali's own account of that, as he explains it in the book's introductions.