Ghazālī on the Relationship between Jurisprudence and Morality

There is no doubt that Ghazālī is one of the important and notable scholars who left different works behind. Some of Ghazālī''s views such as the fiqh being worldly¡ criticizing jurisprudence and jurisprudents to defend ethics and focusing on the inner aspect of the human being as well as the afterworld have been criticized by Muslim intellectuals. Ghazālī gives precedence to morality over jurisprudence. This article seeks to reread and reassess Ghazali''s perspective on the relationship between jurisprudence and morality. At first¡ it provides a report from Ghazālī''s viewpoint and then it formulates his view and works out a conceptual and theoretical framework of his perspective. In continuation¡ the major and minor premises of Ghazālī''s viewpoint have been assessed.