Reply #35: You are gravely oversimplifying al-Ghazal... and have gone completely off-track

[JCMach1]

concerning the Sufis. al-Ghazal was a reaction to the Greek obsessed philosophes in Islam who tried to reconcile Aristotle to the Koran (and what absurdities they got up to!).

Sufis were much more tolerant and open. Also, they never turned their back on learning (at least among most of the Sufi schools of thought).

The wrong turning in Islam is of more recent origin and mostly has to with reactionary backlash against Sufism and the ascendancy of Wahabism.


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As for America, the anti-intellectual roots are much more likely to be found in the puritan origins of the American self...