Al-Ghazali
Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058-1111) · Academics · Died at 53
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Something wrong?A Persian polymath who walked away from the most prestigious academic post in the 11th-century Muslim world, vanished for a decade, and returned to write the books that reshaped Islamic thought - including a demolition of Aristotelian philosophy that would ripple into medieval Europe.
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, There is no denying existence itself. Something must exist and anyone who says nothing exists at all makes a mockery of sense and necessity.
For those endowed with insight there is in reality no object of love but God, nor does anyone but He deserve love
There is the world for you. Beauty, true beauty, is intangible. It is in the eye of the beholder.
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Sibling: Ahmad GhazaliAbout this person
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.
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