"As al-Ghazālī explains, theological arguments are useful to defend religious teachings but they are not meant to analyze reality and to study the true nature of things. Theology (kalām), as he puts it, is an auxiliary discipline which is limited in its range and function:...
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What the mutakallimūn had to say in their books, where they were engaged in refuting the philosophers, was nothing but abstruse, scattered remarks, patently inconsistent and false, which could not conceivably hoodwink an ordinary intelligent person, to say nothing of one...
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familiar with the subtleties of the philosophical sciences.”
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REFERENCE:
al-Ghazālī, al-Munqidh, 16.3–4; Engl. transl. in McCarthy, Deliverance From Error, 59, quoted in "Al-Ghazali's Concept of Philosophy" by U. Rudolph, p. 42.
Rudolph is also cited in Griffel, "The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam", p. 95-97 (pic)
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al-Ghazālī, al-Munqidh, 16.3–4; Engl. transl. in McCarthy, Deliverance From Error, 59, quoted in "Al-Ghazali's Concept of Philosophy" by U. Rudolph, p. 42.
Rudolph is also cited in Griffel, "The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam", p. 95-97 (pic)
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