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    Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [49] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [50] [51] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran ), [49] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.

  2. Mar 6, 2024 · Al-Ghazali, Muslim theologian and mystic whose great work, Ihya ‘ulum al-din, made Sufism (Islamic mysticism) an acceptable part of orthodox Islam. An accomplished scholar, he abandoned his career as a professor and adopted an ascetic life for some 10 years before returning to lecturing.

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  3. Aug 14, 2007 · al-Ghazali. First published Tue Aug 14, 2007; substantive revision Fri May 8, 2020. Al-Ghazâlî ( c .1056–1111) was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam. He was active at a time when Sunni theology had just passed through its consolidation and entered a period of intense ...

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  5. May 23, 2021 · Imam al-Ghazali was born in the city of Tus, the second city of Khorasan after Nishapur, in the year 450 A.H. Ibn 'Asakir said: Imam Ghazali was born in Tus in the year four-hundred and fifty. He began with some jurisprudence (fiqh) there as a child.

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  6. May 26, 2016 · Al-Ghazali ( c. 1058–1111) is widely regarded as one of the most impressive thinkers in the Sunni Islamic world, encompassing a wide range of intellectual positions through his career. He started off as a fairly standard Ashʿarite theologian but then became interested in philosophy in the Peripatetic tradition, which he sought to refute, yet ...

  7. Al-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali was born in 450 AH or between March 1058 to February 1059 CE with the original name of Abu Hamind ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali. To many Westerners he is known as Algazel. Al-Ghazali was a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and a mystic descending from the Persians. He was born in the town of Tabaran in the district of Tus ...

  8. Sufism, mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God. It consists of a variety of mystical paths that are designed to ascertain the nature of humanity and of God and to facilitate the experience. al-Ghazālī, or al-Ghazzālī in full Abū ...

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