Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali was born around 1058 in Tus, in the Khorasan region of Persia. He studied law and theology, including under the scholar al-Juwayni at Nishapur, and in 1091 was appointed to teach at the Nizamiyya college in Baghdad, one of the most prestigious posts in the Islamic world. There he wrote The Incoherence of the Philosophers, a critique of philosophers who followed Aristotle and Avicenna. In 1095 he went through a personal crisis, left his post, and spent years traveling and living as a Sufi in Damascus, Jerusalem and elsewhere, including a pilgrimage to Mecca. During this period he wrote his long work The Revival of the Religious Sciences. His autobiography, Deliverance from Error, describes his search for certain knowledge. He later taught again for a time at Nishapur before returning to Tus, where he died in 1111. He is often counted among the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam.

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Faith: Sunni Muslim philosopher, theologian, jurist and mystic. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy