La teoria ġazāliana dell’imamato: un progetto politico-culturale

In this paper I have analyzed the political doctrine of al-Ġazālī with the intent of framing it within the overall context of his thought. To this purpose, I have examined those texts in which al-Ġazālī deals with the relationship between imamate and sultanate, and therefore between religious and secular power, and I have linked them not only to the historical-political events of the time and his personal experiences, but also to his theological and philosophical thought, and therefore to his wider project of re-foundation of knowledge and revival of religion. The binomial dīn/dunyā (religious sphere / worldly sphere) is indeed at the center of al-Ġazālī’s project of renewal of faith in the light of Sufism, which promotes the close collaboration between these two domains in order to guarantee eternal salvation to human being.