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Al-Ghazali
Also known as Abu Mohammed al-Ghazali, Ghazzoliĭ, Muḣammad ibn Muḣammad ibn Aḣmad Abu Ḣomid at-Tusiĭ,, Al-Ghazzali, Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī, Algazelus, Algazel, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Al-Gonzzali
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Al-Ghazali was an Iranian Muslim scholar from the 11th century who became one of the most influential thinkers in Islamic history, excelling in fields ranging from law and philosophy to theology and mysticism. His wide-ranging contributions to Islamic thought and jurisprudence earned him prominence that has lasted centuries, making him a central figure in how Islamic intellectual traditions developed.
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- Confessions of Al-Ghazali
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23 sectionsContents
- Biography
- School affiliations
- Decade of seclusion
- Works
- ''Incoherence of the Philosophers''
- ''The Revival of Religious Sciences (Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn)''
- ''The Alchemy of Happiness''
- ''Disciplining the Soul''
- ''The Eternity of the World''
- ''The Decisive Criterion for Distinguishing Islam from Clandestine Unbelief''
- ''Deliverance from Error''
- Works in Persian
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- Number of works
- Economic philosophy
- Reception of work
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Al-Ghazali, ( ( – 19 December 1111), Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Iranian 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.
He is considered to be the 11th century's mujaddid, a renewer of the faith, who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every 100 years to restore the faith of the Islamic community. Al-Ghazali's works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that he was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" (Ḥujjat al-Islām). Al-Ghazali was a prominent mujtahid in the Shafi'i school of law.