A Comparative Study of al-Ghazzali's and Kant's Ideas on the Cognition of Metaphysics

There are some similarities and differences between al-Ghazzali and kant on the cognition of metaphysics. Seven centuries before kant developed his philosophy, al-Ghazzali had written Critiques on Philosophy. However, both Philosophy have thought of reviving religion, though al-Ghazzali thought of reviving a comprehersive non-secularist Islamic thought and kant thought of a secularist, humanistic, and rational Protestant thought.Of Criticism raised against al-Ghazzali’s system of thought, one is the thre is less or no coherence and consistency in his ideas. On the one hand, he accused some thinkers whose Philosophical arguments have been used by him in metaphysical subjects. On the other hand, What he has incorporated into his system of thought as the combination of discursive arguments and inner intuitions is crude when compared with what Mullā Sadrā incorporated in his philosophical system which was taken to be on firm foundations and methods.Moreover, what al-Ghazzali refuted in thoughts and works of the early philosophers was nto, in fact, wrong, but refuted in favor of Ash‘ari and Sufi’s teachings.Kant did not succeed to justify the breach between noumenon and phenomenon on the basis of his own philosophical system. His practical moral code was influenced by the Protestant teachings, independent from religion, abstract and imaginative in nature.The ethics be proposed was deficient and had no relationship with religion. His argument that one can assume obligation without taking God into consideration is flase. His Critiques of rational proofs of metaphysical matters are biased and illogical.The article has dealt with the subject in question drawing upon a documentary method.