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Editor arrested after report claiming voter fraud

  A journalist for an Iranian news website says its editor has been arrested after reporting that there is an audiotape of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussing vote rigging in his disputed 2009 re-election. Ahmadinejad’s office strongly denied last month’s report on the Baztab website, and so far, no audiotape has surfaced. The president’s supporters claim […]

A Ghazalian Predicament: Epistemology and Metaphysics of Causation in the Works of Ghazali

  Amirehsan Karbasizadeh*There is no question, which on account of its importance, as well as difficulty has caused more disputes both among ancient and modern philosophers, than this concerning the efficacy of the cause, or that the quality, which made them, be followed by their effects. David Hume (1977, p.156)

Abu Hāmed Mohammad ibn Mohammad al-Ghazzālī (1058-1111)

  Haruniyah structure in Tus, Iran, named after Harun al-Rashid, the mausoleum of Al-Ghazali is expected to be situated on the entrance of this monument (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد الغزالی), known as Algazel to the western medieval world, born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia (modern day Iran) was […]