Why did Muslims stop doing kalam? Islamic theology had the chance to be rational.
Thinkers like al-Ghazālī criticized philosophers as undermining revelation. His Incoherence of the Philosophers argued that philosophy couldn’t prove things like resurrection.
>>17987249But Averroes refuted him in The Incoherence of the Incoherence.
>>17987226nobody cares STFU about sand monkey drivel
>>17987279Yes but Muslim populace were retarded, they clinged to Al Ghazzali views and didn't read Averroes. Al-Azhar think Al Ghazzali was right, so it comes as no surprise that they can't progress forward, as they believe that the Quran already has the answers to everything, not just religious teachings but worldly matters as well.
>>17987226Stopped? More like got cucked by orthobros salafs. Ash'aris won the theological war then immediately pulled up the ladder and became the new...>akhyar, we can't use logic it's bId'Ah!!1!Now we're stuck with literalist Sufis coping with ilham because they let philosophy get neutered by authority. Islam's intellectual decline is terminal.
>>17987226If you try to derive a rational theology from the Qur'an, you'll give up at some point.
>>17988782The Koran is the perfect word of God it is entierly rational.
>>17987226Who says we stopped?
>>17990597black science man says it so it must be true https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/41073/did-al-ghazali-lead-to-decline-of-science-in-islam-as-neil-tyson-claims
>>17987226What philosophy is there for them to even do? Their theology says that Allah absolutely controls everything and that Allah is impossible to comprehend. What philosophy is there to do with that?
>>17989901>its perfect>thats why we need 1001 slice of life stories to annotate it
