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Main : Article: Brief Summary. AL-GHAZALI, ABU HAMID (1058-1111) al-Ghazali is one of the greatest Islamic Jurists, theologians and mystical thinkers. He learned various branches of traditional Islamic religious sciences in his home town of Tus, Gurgan and Nishapur in the northern part of Iran. He was also involved in Sufi practices from an ...
Al-Ghazali. Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) ( Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد الغزالی ), often Algazel in English, was born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia. He was an Islamic theologian, jurist, philosopher, cosmologist, psychologist and mystic of Persian origin, [3 ...
Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn. The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn) is widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality, and is perhaps the most read work in the Muslim world, after the Qurʾān. The Revival of the Religious Sciences is divided into four parts, each containing ten chapters.
May 5, 2019 · Al-Ghazali’s profound knowledge of Muslim law, theology, and philosophy so much impressed Nizam al-Mulk that he appointed him to the Chair of Theology in the Nizamiyyah Academy (established 458-60/1065-67) at Baghdad in 484/1091. He was then only thirty-four.
May 23, 2018 · Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111) was one of the foremost intellects of medieval Islam. Personal discontent with scholastic orthodoxy led him to mysticism and the writing of a monumental work which harmonized the tendencies of both orthodoxy and mysticism within Islam. The vast area now known as the Islamic world had been quickly ...
Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazali, better known as Imam Al-Ghazali for short or Algazel in the West, was a Medieval Persian philosopher who pioneere...
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Abu Hāmid Muhammad al-Ghazālī. BORN: 1058 • Tus, Persia. DIED: 1111 • Tus, Persia. Persian religious scholar; writer. Although Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazālī was a legal scholar and teacher, he is best known for his writings on religion and philosophy. In the middle of his life, al-Ghazālī gave up his academic career and spent years ...
