Al Ghazali · Theology
Al-Ghazali’s turn from the certainty of argument to the certainty of experience - the mystic’s ‘tasting’ of truths that reason can describe but never deliver.
You learned that al-Ghazali distinguished knowing about something from ‘tasting’ it directly. Explain the difference and why he thought reason alone could not reach the highest truths, in your own words.
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