Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Revival of the Religious Sciences
Forty books reviving Islamic worship and ethics from the inside out — orthodox law transfigured by Sufi inwardness
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Late (post-crisis)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Revival of the Religious Sciences
The soul's temporal journey toward the afterlife is the framing structure; eschatological time orients ordinary time.
Space
The Revival of the Religious Sciences
Ordinary embodied space of the daily religious life; with the soul's inner space (the heart, the chambers of the soul) as the deeper subject.
Matter
The Revival of the Religious Sciences
The embodied human life; the body as the soul's instrument and battlefield.
Observer
The Revival of the Religious Sciences
The Muslim believer, with the soul's faculties arrayed for the struggle against the vices and the cultivation of the virtues. Personal-providential God as ultimate framework.
Energy
The Revival of the Religious Sciences
The energies of the soul — passion, anger, appetite — to be disciplined; the energy of divine grace as the deeper enabling power.
Information
The Revival of the Religious Sciences
Religious knowledge as transmitted, preserved, transformed by inward realisation; personal information of the soul fully conserved through death.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Some Hanbali scholars accused al-Ghazali of importing philosophical Sufism into Sunni orthodoxy; some Sufis thought he didn't go far enough. The relation between the Iḥyāʾ's synthesis and his later, more starkly mystical works (the Mishkāt al-Anwār) remains debated. Most importantly, the Iḥyāʾ's integration of philosophy with theology stands in tension with al-Ghazali's earlier critique of the philosophers in The Incoherence — though most scholarship now reads them as targeting different aspects of falsafa.