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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Al-Ghazali rose through the ranks of Islamic scholarship to become head of the Nizamiyya of Baghdad around the late 11th century, the pinnacle of Muslim academic life. Then came the crisis: he saw himself chasing status over God, recognized that the spiritual sciences of early Islam had atrophied into dead ritual, and disappeared. For over ten years he wandered, and in that silence produced his magnum opus, the Iḥyā' 'ulūm ad-dīn — "The Revival of the Religious Sciences" — a work so totemic his peers named him Ḥujjat al-Islām, Proof of Islam. His Tahāfut al-Falāsifa dismantled Aristotelian science with arguments that would surface centuries later in European philosophy. He died in December 1111, having been hailed as his century's mujaddid, the once-in-a-hundred-years renewer of the faith.