IbnAlwaled
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I completely agree, IbnRushd also wrote a book to rebuttal Al-Ghzali:Incoherence of the incoherence, but it failed to revive philosophy which was a main engine for scientific research.There are all kinds of philosophical treatises all the time but, unless this Ghazali was so influential that he directed official state policy and dominated the intellectual climate of his day, I don't see how this one view could have such widespread consequences. The fact that such a regressive view might gain prominence is probably symptomatic of a existing rot in the system.
Of course, I agree with you that Muslim science is not a contradiction in terms, but the fact is that some influential Muslim leaders view anything non-religious as a waste of time, even sacrilegious. They influence their followers to view worldly success as almost sinful.
here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:
"Incoherence of the Philosophers:
His 11th century book titled The Incoherence of the Philosophers marks a major turn in Islamic epistemology. The encounter with skepticism led Ghazali to embrace a form of theological occasionalism, or the belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present will of God.
The Incoherence also marked a turning point in Islamic philosophy in its vehement rejections of Aristotle and Plato. The book took aim at the falasifa, a loosely defined group of Islamic philosophers from the 8th through the 11th centuries (most notable among them Avicenna and Al-Farabi) who drew intellectually upon the Ancient Greeks. Ghazali bitterly denounced Aristotle, Socrates and other Greek writers as non-believers and labeled those who employed their methods and ideas as corrupters of the Islamic faith.
In the next century, Averroes(IbnRushd) drafted a lengthy rebuttal of Ghazali's Incoherence entitled the Incoherence of the Incoherence; however, the epistemological course of Islamic thought had already been set.
This long-held argument has been disputed. Some argue that Al Ghazali was the first intellectual to champion the separation between several disciplines wrongly classified under falsafa (Arabic word for philosophy but one that used to include physics, maths and logic).]]. "Al Ghazali argued that some fundamentalists, who perceive falsafa to be incompatible with religion, tend to categorically reject all views adopted by 'philosophers', including scientific fact like the lunar and solar eclipse. And when that person is later persuaded of a certain view, he tends to blindly accept all other views held by philosophers"."