Abû Hâmid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazâlî
10 books
About the Author
Abû Hâmid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazâlî, widely revered as one of the most influential Islamic scholars of the medieval period, was born in 1058 CE in Tus, Persia, and rose to prominence as a jurist, theologian, and philosopher whose works bridged rational inquiry and spiritual devotion. Educated in the Shafi'i school of law, he served as a professor at the Nizamiyya Madrasa in Baghdad before undergoing a profound spiritual crisis that led him to Sufism, influencing his later writings on ethics, mysticism, and the purification of the soul. Al-Ghazâlî's intellectual legacy, including his seminal text Al-Ghazzali On Knowing This World and the Hereafter, critiques philosophical excesses while advocating a balanced path toward divine knowledge, impacting Islamic thought for centuries and earning him the title Hujjat al-Islam, or Proof of Islam.
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philosophical
theological
introspective
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