The three-day conference, which will open at the Borobudur Hotel on January 18, plans to discuss the role and contributions of Al-Ghazali in building a peaceful and harmonious world civilization, the university announced on Sunday.
Scholars Habib Luthfi bin Yahya and Said Aqil Siradj from Indonesia, Yasir al-Ghadhmani from Syria, Sheikh Muhammad Mahmud Abu Hasyim from Egypt are among the keynote speakers.
Islamic academics from Russia, China, Tunisia, Iran, Morocco and the United States have been invited to attend the conference.
Al-Ghazali was born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan region. He was an Islamic theologian, jurist, philosopher, cosmologist, psychologist and mystic of Persian origin and remains one of the most celebrated scholars in the history of Sunni Islamic thought.
He is considered a pioneer of the methods of doubt and skepticism. In one of his major works, “The Incoherence of the Philosophers,” he changed the course of early Islamic philosophy, shifting it away from an Islamic metaphysics influenced by ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, and towards an Islamic philosophy based on cause-and-effect as determined by God or intermediate angels, a theory now known as occasionalism.
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