Al-Ghazali
Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)
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Medieval Persian scholar who bridged Islamic law, philosophy, and mysticism. Al-Ghazali's synthesis of rational theology and Sufi practice shaped Islamic thought for centuries and made him one of history's most widely read Islamic thinkers.
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Al-Ghazali, (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد غزالی توسی, romanized: Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ghazālī Ṭūsi, Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Persian 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.
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