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RESPONSES AND REJOINDERS I FIND MUCH TO BE grateful for and much to agree with in Professor Moosa’s advocacy of thinking contrapuntally. I know neither the work of al-Ghazali nor Moosa’s work on him, but this elegant essay makes me eager to read both. Moosa is certainly right that those who have practiced Religious Studies (and its cognomens) in the past have often spoken and written in a flat-footedly totalizing way, attempting to account for what they study while refusing to countenance the possibility that they might themselves be accounted for or put to the question by it. Some still do speak and write like this, though there is now an air of quaintness and preciosity about such talk. Moosa is right, too, that there are other ways to do things. Al-Ghazali can be read, for example, in full awareness that the act of reading him may, and almost certainly will, inform the reader’s future reading and thinking in unpredictable ways; and he can be read, as Moosa apparently does, in admiration and partial imitation of his brico- lage, exile, and habitation of interstitial spaces. All this is good, and when done with wit and delicacy as Moosa does
Journal of the American Academy of Religion – Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 28, 2006
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