Al-Ghazali's philosophical approach on perception and Theory of interpretation

Abu Hamid Muhammad Ghazali was among Muslim scholars who accepted the interpretation in the religious scriptures and justified his position by the theory of interpretation. To prove his theory, he dealt with ontology of hierarchy of beings and epistemology of hierarchy in episteme and differences of apprehension as well. Ghazali, by passing of existence and knowledge entered the language and meaning, expanding and enriching the human understanding in his age. By this theory, Ghazali held that every single entity has a position in its related hierarchy of being, and to understand the scripture must study their position in hierarchy of existence. Doing so, he tried to advance a methodological interpretation with a ontological, epistemological, semantics and linguistic approach, in which reason and faith can be a harmony. Ghazali’s philosophical approach to human apprehension has been studied in this paper and his analysis of soul and its faculties introduced. His use of philosophical approach to apprehension to justify the theory of has been explained, as well. Thus, one could say that Ghazali as a rationalist scholar employed philosophical investigations to set up his theory.