Abstract This article offers a comparative study of the religious epistemologies of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and Gregory Palamas, highlighting their shared resistance to the overintellectualization of theology through Greek philosophical categories. Both thinkers critique the limitations of Aristotelian and Platonic conceptions of knowledge, particularly their abstraction of the divine and the...
Gnosis in the sense of ma&s;rifa , the soul&s;s experience of the divine that is related to what is known as "mystical experience," is directly relevant to classic Sufism. The special knowledge that is the product of mystical experience can be agreed to account for gnosis in classic Sufism, this being a knowledge that is available to all who seek a personal and direct knowledge of God. The term...