ABSTRACT
It seems that the traditional Turkish attitude to philosophy in general and to Islamic philosophy in particular never freed itself from the influence of al-Ghazzālī’s well-known criticism of the falāsifah. It was at least partly due to this influence that one can see a theologico-philosophical endeavour which one might loosely name as “the tahāfut tradition” – a tradition which was largely based on Tahāfut al-falāsifah (“The Incoherence of the Philosophers”) and which took little notice of the Tahāfut al-tahāfut of Ibn Rushd. This does not mean, however, that al-Ghazzālī’s criticism of the falāsifah was accepted uncritically.
