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Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (Arabic: أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali (Arabic: ٱلْغَزَالِيُّ; UK: / æ l ˈ ɡ ɑː z ɑː l i /, US: / ˌ æ l ɡ ə ˈ z ɑː l i,-z æ l-/; c. 1058 – 19 December 1111), known in Medieval Europe by the Latinized Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian Sunni Muslim polymath. He is known as one of the ...
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.
Aug 14, 2007 · 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 challenges from Shiite Ismâ’îlite theology and the Arabic tradition of Aristotelian philosophy (falsafa).Al-Ghazâlî understood the importance of falsafa and developed a complex response that rejected and condemned some of its ...
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May 23, 2021 · He is the Imam, the Beauty of Religion and Proof of Islam, Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali of Tus, then Nishapur - the jurist, Sufi, Shafi'i, and Ash'ari. 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
May 5, 2019 · 1 For al-Ghazālī’s role as a renewer of religion, cf. abu al-Hasan ‘Ali, Tarikh-i Da’wat-a `Azimat, Azamgarh, 1375/1955, Part I, pp. 111-81 (Urdu); Shibli Nu’mam, al-Ghazālī, Lahore, 1956, pp. 279-352 (Urdu). Cf. also A. W. Zuhfiri (Tr. and Comp.), Makatib-i Imam Ghazālī (Letters of Imam al-Ghazālī), Karachi, 1949 (Urdu).See al-Munqidh, English translation by W. Montgomery Watt in his Faith and Practice of al-Ghazālī, London, 1953, p.75. All references to al-Munqidh are to ...
al-Ghazālī, or al-Ghazzālī in full Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī al-Ghazālī, (born 1058, Ṭūs, Iran—died Dec. 18, 1111, Ṭūs), Muslim theologian and mystic.He studied philosophy and religion and became chief professor of the Niẓāmiyyah college in Baghdad in 1091. A spiritual crisis prompted him to abandon his career in 1095 and adopt the life of a poor Sufi.He did not return to teaching until 1106, persuaded by those who believed he was a centennial ...
Nov 9, 2023 · Imam Abdu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111 CE) was a – polymath – philosopher, jurist, and theologian and a Sufi. Author of many books, he is known to have influenced many philosophers including the famous Western philosopher Thomas Aquinas and his book Summa Theologica.
May 21, 2018 · al- Ghazali (ăl-găzä´lē), 1058–1111, Islamic theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He was born at Tus in Khorasan, of Persian origin. He is considered the greatest theologian in Islam.
Kīmīyā-yi Sa'ādat (Persian: کیمیای سعادت English: The Alchemy of Happiness/Contentment) is a book written by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, a Persian theologian, philosopher, and prolific Muslim author, often regarded as one of the greatest systematic thinkers and mystics of Islam, in Persian. The Kimiya-yi Sa'ādat was written towards the end of his life shortly before 499 AH/1105 AD. During the time before it was written, the Muslim world was ...
