Destiny Disrupted

96 DESTINY DISRUPTED second man passed muster too; but when Bukhari went to interview the third man in the chain of transmission ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 97 ogous one in classical sources and derive a judgment parallel to the one al- ready made. An ...

98 DESTINY DISRUPTED The four schools of Sunni law are named for the scholars who gave them final shape. Thus, the Hanafi school ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 99 was no license, no certificate, no "shingle" to hang up to prove that one was an alim. The ...

100 DESTINY DISRUPTED when they looked into Plotinus, they found that he had constructed his system with rigorous logic from a s ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 101 Elements Minerals, Plants, and Animals Plato had described the material world as an illuso ...

102 DESTINY DISRUPTED On the other hand, their interests directed the philosophers into prac- tical concerns. By compiling, cata ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 103 ples of nature belong to science, the realm of moral and ethical value be- longs to religi ...

104 DESTINY DISRUPTED not be eternal and uncreated (as the ulama proclaimed) because if it were, the Qur'an would constitute a s ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 105 philosopher Abu Bakr al-Razi blatantly asserted that the miracles ascribed to prophets of ...

106 DESTINY DISRUPTED Ibn Hanbal drastically demoted such methods: rely only on Qur'an and hadith, he said. He was hauled into t ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 107 a set of rules? Because I'm not feeling it. Is there nothing more to Islam?" Instructions ...

108 DESTINY DISRUPTED as a slave in some rich man's household. Her master, the stories say, kept noticing a luminous spiritualit ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 109 Until this time, most Muslim mystics were "sober" Sufis, rigorously de- voted to rituals a ...

110 DESTINY DISRUPTED about the philosophers. He therefore had Hallaj clapped in prison for eleven years, but Hallaj was so lost ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 111 tises of the Greek. Then he wrote a book about Greek philosophy called The Aims of the Phi ...

112 DESTINY DISRUPTED forth past a narrow slit in a fence. If we're looking through the slit from the other side, Watts said, we ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 113 Ghazali now wrote two more seminal books, The Alchemy of Happiness and The Revival of the ...

114 DESTINY DISRUPTED no one seemed surprised that a woman would take on this role. Women were present at the iconic early battl ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 115 band in his absence and in his presence; she should seek his pleasure in all affairs .... ...