Gazali – filozof sufija
Ghazali – Sufi philosopher

Summary/Abstract: Intellectual relationship of imam Muhammad Al-Ghazali towards Tasawwuf and philosophy for centuries has been and still is the subject of continuous discussions. He was a great thinker, and centuries after his death, there was a need for repeated reading of his works. Some consider him to be the enemy of philosophy and, therefore, of rationality; others consider him a rational thinker; while some see him as a pure gnostic, others see him as Ahl al-Hadith. The root of this problem is in our understanding and relation to Tasawwuf, gnosis and philosophy. Some people are imagining that there is no compatibility between religiosness and belief in Divine truths and reflections on one side and ratio and rationalism on the other, and that religiousness necessarily requires freedom from ratio and giving in to the heart. In the same way, they also think about the gnosis and the Tasawwuf, and they believe that the gnosis is a foreign and alien course that gradually seized the Islamic world due to the bad intentions of some people. These long-standing tensions between mind and love, or mind and philosophy and Tasawwuf, left a deep trace in religious thought. That is precisely the focus of understanding of the thought of Imam Muhammad Ghazali. Some, referring to the work “Delierance from error” (al-Munqidh min al-dalal), considered Ghazali an enemy of philosophy and,therefore, an enemy of the rational thought, making him a “Sufi kumir” who did not believe in thinking; who walked through the path of the Syrusuluk and sought to achieve the revelation of the Quranic meanings through inspiration and spiritual testing (zouq). Others, on the other hand, considered him a Sufi thinker, referring to Ghazali’s works from the third stage of his life.

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