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al-Ghazali (ٱلْغَزَّالِيُّ) was a Persian [[Islamic]] scholar who was, among other things, one of the most prominent philosophers, Ash'arite theologians, jurists, and mystics of [[Sunni]] Islam. He is widely considered a Mujaddid (one of the centennial revivers of Islam predicted by [[Muhammad]], and enjoys immense authority in the Sunni Islamic tradition. His ''magnum opus'' was the ''Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm ad-dīn'' ("The Revival of the Religious Sciences"), through which he advanced the "spiritual sciences" as central to Islam. He is equally well known for his ''Tahāfut al-Falāsifa'' ("Incoherence of the Philosophers"), through which he critiqued Aristotelianism in particular, and philosophy more generally, ushering, many would argue, the decline of philosophical enterprise in the Muslim world.<ref><nowiki>https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/al-ghazali/</nowiki></ref> | |||
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| name = Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsī al-Ġaz(z)ālī | |||
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| birth_date = c. 1058 | |||
| birth_place = Tus, Greater Khorasan, Seljuq Empire | |||
| death_date = 1111 | |||
| death_place = Tus, Greater Khorasan, Seljuq Empire | |||
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| occupation = philosopher, theologian, jurist, mystic | |||
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| religion = [[Sunni]] | |||
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| notable_works = Revivabl of the Religious Sciences<br>Incoherence of the Philosophers<br>Autobiography - Deliverance from Error<br>The Alchemy of Happiness<br>Disciplining the Soul<br>The Eternity of the World<br>The Decisive Criterion for Distinguishing Islam from Clandestine Unbelief<br> | |||
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| employer = Nizam al-Mulk; Nizamiyyah Madrassa, Baghdad | |||
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al-Ghazali (ٱلْغَزَّالِيُّ) was a Persian [[Islamic]] scholar who was, among other things, one of the most prominent philosophers, Ash'arite theologians, Shafi'i jurists, and mystics of [[Sunni]] Islam. He is widely considered a Mujaddid (one of the centennial revivers of Islam predicted by [[Muhammad]], and enjoys immense authority in the Sunni Islamic tradition. His ''magnum opus'' was the ''Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm ad-dīn'' ("The Revival of the Religious Sciences"), through which he advanced the "spiritual sciences" as central to Islam. He is equally well known for his ''Tahāfut al-Falāsifa'' ("Incoherence of the Philosophers"), through which he critiqued Aristotelianism in particular, and philosophy more generally, ushering, many would argue, the decline of philosophical enterprise in the Muslim world.<ref><nowiki>https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/al-ghazali/</nowiki></ref> | |||
== Life == | == Life == | ||