The syari'ah has not been more abused, misunderstood and misrepresented than in our time. It is commonly used to justify oppresion and despotism, injustice and ebuse of power. It has been understood as an ossified body of low that has little something to do with modern time. It has been represented as an intelectually sterile body of knowledge belonging to the distant history, rather than the p…
Al Ghazzali's discussion of causality is not absolutely new in Islamic thought. There had been such discourses that prevailed among Muslim intellectuals before him. In order to appreciate better the significant of al Ghazzali's concept, however, we shall trace back that discourse in Islamic intelectual tradition. For this purpose, it is imperative that we trace first the origin of this nation i…