“Before I was teaching the knowledge that brought prestige and position…; now, however, I am calling to the knowledge that leads one to renounce position.”
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Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali, (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد غزالی توسی, romanized: Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ghazālī Ṭūsi, Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Persian scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, theologians, logicians and mystics in Islamic history.
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culture · Sunni Muslim polymath (c. 1058–1111) · philosopher · mutakallim · autobiographer · poet · Islamic jurist · journal editor · journalist · Sufi · theologian · also Al-Ghazali, Ghazzoliĭ, Muḣammad ibn Muḣammad ibn Aḣmad Abu Ḣomid at-Tusiĭ,, Al-Ghazzali, Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī, Algazelus, Algazel
Born 1 January 1058 · Died 19 December 1111 · Q9546
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2026· 3 entries
“Al-Ghazzaali, the imaam and shaykh, the prominent scholar, Hujjat al-Islam, the wonder of his time, Zayn al-Deen Abu Haamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Toosi al-Shaafa”
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“adat (The Alchemy of Happiness). It is al-Ghazali”
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2025· 1 entry
Tehran Times: Book about Al-Ghazali's theory of mystical cognition published in Persian
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: 3 things to learn about patience − and impatience − from al-Ghazali, a medieval Islamic scholar
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2019· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: In Service of God and Humanity: The Legacy of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali
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2017· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Arrogance, Ignorance and Charlottesville: Guidance from Al-Ghazali for a Populist Age
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2012· 2 entries
That "it is a widespread belief among orientalists that one of the major factors, if not the single most important reason, for the decline of science in the Islamic world after its golden age is al-Ghazali's attack on ph
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Argued that while indeed scientific thought in Islam was stifled in the 11th century, the person mostly to blame is not al-Ghazali but Nizam al-Mulk
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2007· 1 entry
Argued that the decline of science in the 11th century has been overstated, pointing to continuing advances, particularly in astronomy, as late as the 14th century
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1111· 1 entry
Died 1111-12-19.
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1058· 1 entry
Born 1058-01-01.
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