Mystical Knowledge and the Limits of Reason: A Comparative Study of al-Ghazālī and Gregory Palamas
Sophia April 16, 2026 Milad Milani, Zolt Salontai
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...