Seminario sobre al-Gazālī

27 Abr Seminario sobre al-Gazālī

El próximo 23 de mayo se celebrará en el Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC) el seminario Seven Questions about the Controversy over al-Ghazālī in al-Andalus, impartido por el profesor Ken Garden (Tufts University).

Este seminario, organizado por Maribel Fierro y Virginia Vázquez Hernández dentro del marco del proyecto «Practicing Knowledge in Islamic Societies and their Neighbours» y el grupo de investigación Historia Cultural del Mediterráneo, tendrá lugar en la sala Julián Ribera (1C) a las 11:30 horas.

Está abierto a todas las personas interesadas en asistir.

Sobre el ponente:

Ken Garden, Profesor Asociado en la Tufts University, obtuvo su doctorado en  Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations en la Universidad de Chicado en el año 2005. Es autor del libro The First Islamic Reviver: Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī and his Revival of the Religious Sciences (Oxford: 2014). Sus líneas de investigación están centradas en el desarrollo del Sufismo en el Norte de África y la España musulmana de los siglos XII y XIII.

Publicaciones:

• «Coming Down from the Mountaintop: Al-Ghazālī’s Autobiographies in Context,» Muslim World Special Issue Celebrating the 900th Anniversary of al-Ghazālī , 101/4 (October, 2011), pp. 581-596.
• «Al-Māzarī al-Dhakī: Al-Ghazālī’s Maghribi Adversary in Nishapur,» Journal of Islamic Studies, 21/1 (2010), pp. 89-107.
• «From Courtier to Religious Scholar: The riḥla and self-reinvention of Abū Bakr Ibn al-‘Arabī.» , Journal of the American Oriental Society. En prensa.
• «The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Su’ād al-Hakīm’s Adaptation al-Ghazālī’s Revival,» en las actas del congreso «al-Ghazālī and his Influence: A Workshop on the Occasion of the 900th Anniversary of his Death in 1111» , Yale University, December 9-10, 2011. En prensa.

Resumen del Seminario sobre al-Ghazālī

That the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) was violently opposed in al-Andalus during his lifetime and in the first decades following his death is well known.  A comprehensive account of the context and causes of this opposition has eluded scholars.  This talk will provide new background and details about al-Ghazālī and the controversy over his Revival of the Religious Sciences in al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the 6th/12th century, as well as suggesting the limits of what we can know barring the discovery of new sources.