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Mystical Knowledge and the Limits of Reason: al-Ghazali and Gregory Palamas

Activity: Talk/Presentation › Invited talk

Description

This talk offers a comparative study of the epistemologies of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and Gregory Palamas, highlighting their shared resistance to the overintellectualization of theology through Greek philosophical categories. Both thinkers critique the limitations of Aristotelian and Platonic conceptions of knowledge, particularly their abstraction of the divine and the reduction of metaphysical inquiry to rational demonstration.
Period18 Sept 2025
Held atNotre Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Sufism
  • Mysticism
  • Religion
  • Religious Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Theology
  • al-Ghazali
  • Gregory Palamas
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Metaphysics
  • Intellectual History
  • History of Ideas

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