SOURCE: Hourani, George F. “Ghazālī on the Ethics of Action.” In Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics, pp. 135-66. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
In the following excerpt, Hourani analyzes al-Ghazālī's theory that rules for action derive from revelation and cannot be learned through reasoning independently.
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