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Al-Ghazali

Sunni Muslim polymath (c. 1058–1111)

Not to be confused with al-Ghazal.

For other uses, see Ghazali.

Imam

Al-Ghazali

Title

Hujjat al-Islam ('Proof of Islam')^[1]

Born

c. 1058

Tus, Iran, Seljuq Empire

Died

19 månad 1111(1111-12-19) (aged 52–53)

Tus, Iran, Seljuq Empire

Era

Islamic Golden Age

Region

Seljuq Empire (Nishapur)^[2]^: 292
Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
Fatimid Caliphate (Jerusalem) / (Damascus)^[2]^: 292

Main interest(s)

Sufism, theology (kalam), philosophy, logic, Sharia, Islamic jurisprudence, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence

Notable work(s)

The Revival of Religious Sciences, The Aims of the Philosophers, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, The Alchemy of Happiness, The Moderation in Belief, The sammanfattat in Imam Shafi’i’s Jurisprudence, On Legal theory of Muslim Jurisprudence

Religion

Islam

Denomination

Sunni^{[3 •
The life of Al-Ghazali
The following text was originally published in Prospects: the quarterly review of comparative education (Paris, UNESCO: International Bureau of Education), vol. XXIII, no. 3/4, 1993, p. 519-542. ©UNESCO: International Bureau of Education, 2000 This document may be reproduced free of charge as long as acknowledgement is made of the source. AL-GHAZALI (A.D. 1058-1111; A.H. 450-505) Nabil Nofal 1 Until recently, Islamic thought as propounded by al-Ghazali constituted the predominant school with regard to the theory and practice of Islam (and, in particular, Sunnite Islam). With his immense intellectual stature and his encyclopaedic knowledge, al-Ghazali has influenced Islamic thought and defined its practice for nearly nine centuries. He was a representative of ‘conciliatory Islam’. Over the past three decades, a new current of ‘combative Islam’ has appeared and grown rapidly, and is attempting to gain control of the Islamic world. Some observers see this trend
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Al-Ghazali
Ghazali (Algazel)
Born c.1058 C.E. (450 AH)
Died 1111 C.E. (505 AH)
Era Medieval era (Islamic golden age)
Region MuslimPersian scholar
School Sufism, Sunni (Shafi'ite), Asharite
Main interests Sufism, Islamic Theology (Kalam), Islamic Philosophy, Islamic Psychology, Logic, Islamic Law, Islamic Jurisprudence, Cosmology
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 Islamictheologian, jurist, philosopher, cosmologist, psychologist and mystic of Persian origin,^[3]^[4] and remains one of the most celebrated scholars in the history of Sunni Islamic thought.
He is considered to be a pioneer of the methods of doubt and skepticism, and in one of his major works, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, he changed the course of early Islamic philosophy.}