Al-Gazali’s Concepts of Certitude of the Intellect Versus Certitude of Post-Intellect
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I will try in this article to clarify the two concepts of Yaqin / Certitude in al-Gazali’s philosophy and to shed light on the aspects of similarity and dissimilarity between the two concepts. al-Gazali distinguishes between the concept of intellectual certitude and the concept of the stage beyond the intellect, which I will call post-intellect certitude. The first concept is a negation of doubt regarding the things that the intellect encompasses, or the things that exist in the world of possession, and evidence that is subject to the rules of the intellect. However, the second type of certitude is defined by the control of certitude over the soul. Its range is the world of possession, and the access to this knowledge is the stage of beyond the intellect / post-intellect