A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali

Cilt: 2 Sayı: 1 14 Haziran 2013
  • Mohamed El-moctar El-shınqıtı
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A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali

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More than six centuries separate the death of Saint Augustine (354-430) and thebirth of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (1058-1111). Each of these two 'giants of the spirit' professeda different faith, and struggled with different social and political life. Augustine lived in thefourth and fifth-century Carthage, Rome, Milan and Hippo; Al-Ghazali in the eleventh andtwelfth-century Baghdad, Damascus, Mecca and Tus. But the readers of the spiritual autobiographiesleft behind by Augustine and Al-Ghazali will certainly be amazed to find strikingsimilarities that refl ect a common struggle with the same existential questions about theparadoxes of the human condition and the perpetual search and longing for God. A solidscholarship, a great curiosity and a genuine thirst for certainty were characteristic of bothAugustine and Al-Ghazali. Each of these two seekers of God immersed himself bravely inunfamiliar cultures, bridged different worlds, and subdued whatever he studied to his faith.The process of this cultural digestion did not pass without painful impact on these giantminds, not the least of it is the spiritual restlessness that Augustine and Al-Ghazali hadto struggle with, and to make their way through, with a great difficulty and agony. Thisarticle emphasizes the quest for spiritual certainty in the autobiographies of Augustine andAl-Ghazali, as opposed to the quest for intellectual certainty, commonly associated withthese two seekers of God.

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  1. Primary Sources
  2. Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. 1980. Al-Munqidh Mina Al-Dalal (Deliverance fr om Error) in McCarthy, Richard Joseph.
  3. Freedom and Fulfi llment: An Annotated Translation of al-Ghazali's Al-Munqidh Min Al-Dalal and Other Relevant
  4. Works of al-Ghazali. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
  5. Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. 1980. Explaining the Wonders of the Heart, in McCarthy, Freedom and Fulfi llment.
  6. Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. 1980. Th e Noblest Aim, in McCarthy, Freedom and Fulfi llment.
  7. Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. 1963. Incoherence of the Philosophers, translated by Sabih Ahmed Kamali. Lahore: Pakistan
  8. Philosophical Congress.

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Mohamed El-moctar El-shınqıtı Bu kişi benim

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14 Haziran 2013

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14 Haziran 2013

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Yıl 2012 Cilt: 2 Sayı: 1

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APA
El-shınqıtı, M. E.- moctar. (2013). A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali. Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2(1), 67-84. https://izlik.org/JA88ET58YB
AMA
1.El-shınqıtı ME moctar. A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali. Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2013;2(1):67-84. https://izlik.org/JA88ET58YB
Chicago
El-shınqıtı, Mohamed El-moctar. 2013. “A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali”. Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 2 (1): 67-84. https://izlik.org/JA88ET58YB.
EndNote
El-shınqıtı ME- moctar (01 Haziran 2013) A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali. Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 2 1 67–84.
IEEE
[1]M. E.- moctar El-shınqıtı, “A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali”, Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 2, sy 1, ss. 67–84, Haz. 2013, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA88ET58YB
ISNAD
El-shınqıtı, Mohamed El-moctar. “A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali”. Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 2/1 (01 Haziran 2013): 67-84. https://izlik.org/JA88ET58YB.
JAMA
1.El-shınqıtı ME- moctar. A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali. Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2013;2:67–84.
MLA
El-shınqıtı, Mohamed El-moctar. “A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali”. Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 2, sy 1, Haziran 2013, ss. 67-84, https://izlik.org/JA88ET58YB.
Vancouver
1.Mohamed El-moctar El-shınqıtı. A Painful Quest for God The Pre-Conversion Moment of Augustine and Al-Ghazali. Birey ve Toplum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2013;2(1):67-84. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA88ET58YB