Imam al-Ghazali
أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي
Ḥujjat al-Islām
Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī
- Birthplace
- Ṭūs, Khurāsān
- Madhhab
- Shāfiʿī in fiqh, Ashʿarī in ʿaqīdah
- Reference
- Wikipedia ↗
Reviving the inner life of Islam through the Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn — one of the most influential works ever written in any religious tradition.
Al-Ghazali was a jurist, theologian, and mystic whose spiritual crisis at the height of his career in Baghdad led him to a decade of withdrawal and self-examination. He returned with a body of work that redrew the relationship between law, theology, and the heart — insisting that outward practice without inward sincerity is a building without a foundation.
- Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn (Revival of the Religious Sciences)
- Al-Munqidh min al-Ḍalāl (Deliverance from Error)
- Bidāyat al-Hidāyah (The Beginning of Guidance)
- Kīmiyā al-Saʿādah (The Alchemy of Happiness)
Called the Proof of Islam (Ḥujjat al-Islām), al-Ghazali is cited by everyone from Ibn Taymiyyah to Thomas Aquinas. The Iḥyāʾ remains a touchstone of Islamic spirituality nine centuries after it was written.
