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Â Al-Ghazali - definition of Al-Ghazali in Encyclopedia

Ghazali bitterly denounced Aristotle, Socrates and other Greek writers as non-believers and labelled those who employed their methods and ideas as corrupters of the Islamic faith.
The encounter with skepticism led Ghazali to embrace a form of theological occasionalism, or the belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present will of Allah, the Islamic divine being.
Ghazali's influence has been compared to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas in Christian theology (he has been called the "Thomas Aquinas of Islam" by some), but the two differed greatly in methods and beliefs.

http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Al-Ghazali (677 words)

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Â Al-Ghazali from Encyclopedia Iranica

The authenticity of Ghazali's al-Radd al-jamil `ala'l-elahiyat `Isa sarih al-Enjil "The excellent refutation of the divinity of Jesus from the clear evidence of the Gospel" is maintained by Louis Massignon (pp.
Ghazali's influence on the rationalist philosophy of the Islamic West as well as on the scholasticism of Judaism and Christianity in medieval southern Europe has been highlighted for centuries; the study of his impact on the inner life and mystical thought of the Persian-speaking world has barely begun.
Breaking the vow he had made at Abraham's tomb, Ghazali accepted the invitation and taught in Nishapur until shortly before his death, animated by his belief that it was God's will for him to function as the renewer of religion (mujaddid) at the threshold of the new Islamic century.

http://www.ghazali.org/articles/gz-iranica.htm (3773 words)

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Â AllRefer.com - al- Ghazali (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia

al- Ghazali[al-gazA´lE] Pronunciation Key, 1058–1111, Islamic theologian, philosopher, and mystic.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on al- Ghazali
He was born at Tus in Khorasan, of Persian origin.

http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/G/Ghazali.html (282 words)

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Â Imam al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazzali On Knowing Yourself and God (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)
Al-Ghazzali On Repentance (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)
Al-Ghazzali On Trust and the Unity of God (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)

http://store.talkislam.com/alghazali.html (282 words)

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Â Al-Ghazali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After the death of his teacher, Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, Ghazali moved to the court of Nizam al-Mulk, the powerful vizir of the Seljuq Sultans, who eventually appointed him head of the Nizamiyyah College at Baghdad in AH 484/1091 CE.
Ihya' 'ulum al-din, "The revival of the religious sciences", Ghazali's most important work
The great Sufi Sheikh Imam Mohammad Ghazali is also buried here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazali (4371 words)

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Â Recommended Reading Archive

Imam Zayn al-Abidin Ali bin Husayn bin Ali Rady Allahu Anhu
The Meaning of Travelling on the Spiritual Path
Imam Hajar al-Asqalani and his commentary Fath al-Bari

http://ww.iqra.net/reading.php (4371 words)

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Â AYYUHAL WALAD by IMAM ABU HAMID AL

Imam Ghazali is remembered by scholars as the "Proof of Islam" and a renewer (mujadid) of the Islamic faith in its fifth century (1058-1111 CE).
Ghazali is a towering intellectual and spiritual colossus whose genius has enlightened for over 800 years.
An excerpt from Imam Ghazali’s Ayyuhal Walad - translated by Shaikh Seraj Hendricks Ayyuhal Walad, "Oh my Young Man," is a letter to a student by Hujjat al-Islam Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali.

http://www.zawiyah.org.za/walad.htm (4371 words)

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Â Imam Al-Ghazalî

Imam Al-Ghazali (må Allah ta'ala vara nöjd med honom)
The Spirituality of Abu Hamid Muhammad al- Ghazali
"Imam al-Ghazali's Encyclopedia of Shari'a Source Methodology, his fourth book on the subject, and his last word, was al-Mustasfa, which has been printed several times in Egypt and elsewhere.

http://www.livingislam.org/ghaz_e.html (4371 words)

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Â Muslim American Society

Al Ghazali therefore could not countenance the preaching of Mansur al Hallaj (309/922) who went about Baghdad claiming that through the mystical experience he and God had become one.
Al Ghazali, we may concede, taught the primacy of axiological knowledge, which relates man to God, over the knowledge of the world, which would be faulty and groundless without the first.
Al Ghazali argued that neither the knowledge nor the subject of knowledge changes when, having been informed of change before its taking place, the object of knowledge goes through the pre-known change.

http://www.masnet.org/history.asp?id=946 (4371 words)

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Â IMAM: imam

Imam Ali home page - Articles and books with the shiite point of view on Islam.
Al- Imam Al-Azam Abu Hanifa - A biography of the scholar, jurist, and founder of the Hanifi Madhhab (one of the four Sunni schools of Islamic law).
Imam Halima Krausen - Neben islamischen Studien, Schwerpunkt interreligiÃ¶ser Dialog mit Reflexionen und Erfahrungen aus verschiedenen Quellen.

http://www.iper1.com/iper1-odp/cerca-asp--strcerca-llll-imam.htm (4371 words)

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Â Medieval Sourcebook: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE): The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife , from The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya `ulum al-din)

Anyone who is aquainted with the work of the Imam would unhestitatingly agree with this statement, as Imam Ghazali deals primarily with issues of faith (Aqid`ah) as well as other Islamic issues and is of Persian descent.
The following is a section from the above book, the book is an remarkable piece of work on eschatology by probably the greatest scholar of Islam, Imam Hujjat al-Islam (The Proof of Islam) Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111).
Imam Nawawi has said that "if all the books of Islam were lost, the Ihya would suffice them all", such is the depth and detail of this remarkable work.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/alghazali.html (4371 words)

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Â The Fiqh of Imam al-Ghazali?

Additionally, the authorities of the Muslim biographers and historiographers like Imam al-Taj Subki and others who preceded or followed him mentioned Imam al-Ghazali as a Shafii, not as an independent mujtahid who left adherence to Imam Shafiis madhab (Allah be well pleased with him and show him mercy), and Allah knows best.
There is no disagreement that al-Ghazali, Allah have mercy on him, is not just an adherent of the Shafii school of fiqh, but one of the greatest imams of the madhab, with several well known works for which he is still known by the great scholars of biography and history.
As to the words of Imam al-Ghazali (Allah show him mercy) in the 'Ihya,' the assumption is that they are according to the principles of the madhab.

http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/Questions/QA00003997.aspx (4371 words)

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Â Al-Ghazali from Encyclopedia Iranica

Ghazali's influence on the rationalist philosophy of the Islamic West as well as on the scholasticism of Judaism and Christianity in medieval southern Europe has been highlighted for centuries; the study of his impact on the inner life and mystical thought of the Persian-speaking world has barely begun.
Ghazali's most important work, the monumental Ihya' `olum al-din, written during his years of travel and retreat between his teaching at Baghdad and Nishapur, represents a moderate form of Sufism, one stressing religious knowledge and righteous action (cf.
Breaking the vow he had made at Abraham's tomb, Ghazali accepted the invitation and taught in Nishapur until shortly before his death, animated by his belief that it was God's will for him to function as the renewer of religion ( mujaddid) at the threshold of the new Islamic century.

http://www.ghazali.org/articles/gz-iranica.htm (4371 words)

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Â Dear Beloved Son

Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: Imam al-Ghazali was born in 450 AH (1059 CE) in Tous.
Imam al-Ghazali illustrates his ideas throughout with relevant quotations from the Quran and Hadith, as well as poetry and logical examples and clear analogies which demonstrates the need to cleanse ourselves of bad manners so that we can develop good characteristics.
During this period of his youth, Imam Ghazali had the opportunity to travel extensively.

http://www.kvisionbooks.com/browseproducts/Dear-Beloved-Son.HTML (4371 words)

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Â Peter Greenland’s Al-Ghazali Web Site - Other Sites (Biographical)

Ghazali's major contribution lies in religion, philosophy and sufism.
Persian Abu Hamid Muhammad Ghazali (Algazel in Latin texts) was the most influential Ash'arite theologian of his time.
Imam al-Ghazali as a reformer and its answer.

http://www.btinternet.com/~petergreenland/al-ghazali_other_sites2.htm (4371 words)

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Â Imam al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazzali On Knowing Yourself and God (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)
Al-Ghazzali On Repentance (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)
Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Anger, Hatred and Envy (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)

http://store.talkislam.com/alghazali.html (4371 words)

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Â AMSE. International : About us

Abu Ab-dallah Muhammad al-Idrisi (Ceuta and Cordova, 1130)
Abu Bekr Muhammad al-Razi (Rhazes) (Rayy near Tehran, 844-946)
Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd (Aleppo, 1126-98) (Averroes)

http://www.amse.net/discoveries_500years.html (4371 words)

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Â Hujjatul Islam Imam Al Ghazali

Al Ghazali kemudian berpindah ke Baghdad, kembali ke Nisapur dan akhirnya ke tempat kelahirannya di Thusia hingga ke akhir hayatnya.
Semasa kecil, Al Ghazali menuntut ilmu fiqh di tempat kelahirannya dengan Sheikh Ahmad bin Muhammad Ar Razikani.
Nama sebenar Imam Al Ghazali ialah Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ahmad.

http://traditionalislam.tripod.com/Imam_AlGhazali.htm (4371 words)

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Â On Imam Ghazali and Bosnia

Similarly, Ghazali's interest in Sufi mysticism is regarded with suspicion by members of the Wahhabi sect, which has its headquarters in Saudi Arabia, because it interferes with their vision of Islam as a purely legalistic, superficial religion with no possibilities of nuanced spiritual or literary discourse.
Nonetheless, even in Saudi Arabia, many more educated and sensitive people now seem to be rejecting the Wahhabi sect and are turning to Ghazali for a more thoughtful and advanced understanding of their religion.
EK: Can I start by asking about your belief that Imam al-Ghazali's books must play a central role in the current campaign to revivify Islam?

http://www.sunnah.org/audio/onghazal.htm (4371 words)

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Â Medieval Sourcebook: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE): Munkidh min al-Dalal (Confessions, or Deliverance from Error), c. 1100 CE

Abu Hamid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi'i al-Ghazali [ Ghazali in Persian, Al-Ghazali in Arabic) was born in 450/41 AH/1058 A.D. in Tus in Khorasan, (a region of Iran).
In fact, Ghazali strove vehemently to destroy the demonstrative range that philosophers, Avicennians as well as others, accorded to their arguments regarding the eternity of the world, the procession of the Intelligences, the existence of purely spiritual substances, and the idea of spiritual resurrection.
Ghazali argued that an infinite time was related to an infinite space.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1100ghazali-truth.html (4371 words)

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Â HizmetBooks

For example, concerning the liability to sacrifice sheep during the Festival of Sacrifices ('Id al-adha), a person who cannot meet his needs and debts with the rents he gets is considered poor according to Imam Muhammad, while, according to the Shaikh'ain (al-Imam al-azam and Imam Abu Yusuf), he is considered rich.
Since neither of the two imams had said that it would be permissible for a person to donate something movable to himself, the ijtihads of both imams were brought together and a fatwa was issued stating that this was also permissible.
One of the most well-known of them is about 'one's donating one's movables to oneself,' which has been deemed permissible by unifying the ijtihads of Imam Abu Yusuf and Imam Muhammad.

http://www.hizmetbooks.org/Answer_to_an_Enemy_of_Islam/enemy31-35.htm (4371 words)

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Â Al-Khilafa And Imam al-Ghazali

The Abbasid Khalifa that existed when Imam Ghazali went into seclusion was the same Khalifa that existed when Imam Ghazali came out of the seclusion!
Whatever Imam Ghazali has meant here, it certainly does not refer to what you put in his mouth.
It is not a populist movement as the Khilafa movements clamor, but they will never admit it because it saps their ideological underpinnings and stuns their worldly designs.

http://www.livingislam.org/fiqhi/fiqha_e90.html (4371 words)

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Â AL GHAZALI AND AVERROES

Ghazali is saying that even if we waive the objection that the First need not know what proceeds from him by nature rather than by will, still only one thing proceeds directly from him, and he won't know the things he causes indirectly.
Ghazali insists that God must know the individuals too.
Ghazali rejects this doctrine and brings up various difficulties and objections.

http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/x52t07.html (4371 words)

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Â al-Akiti

[The second opinion] is the clearer opinion [Qawl Azhar] according to [Imam] al-Rafi'i and according to [Imam al-Nawawi] in the Rawdat [al-Talibin] and the Sharh al-Muhadhdhab [i.e., al-Majmu'] which says that soaps and the like cannot be substitutes for earth.
The Qawl Shadhdh says that all of the impurities coming out from a dog except its saliva can be classified as Najasa Mutawassita [the Middle Impurities].
Imam Nawawi says that this is very strong from the point of view of evidence." If this is a paraphrase of the Kifaya, it is off the mark and if it is a translation (even a non-literal one) of the passage from the Kifaya, it is wrong.

http://anak_alam0.tripod.com/anakalam/id20.html (4371 words)

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Â Personalities Noble

Abu Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Jabir Ibn Sinan al-Battani al-Harrani was born around 858 A.D. in Harran, and according to one account, in Battan, a State of Harran.
Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi was born at Basrah.
Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina was born in 980 A.D. at Afshana near Bukhara.

http://www.jamil.com/personalities/index.shtml (4371 words)

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Â SALAFIYYA

Also, Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Muhyiddin ibn al-'Arabi and the Andalusian philosopher Qutb ad-din Muhammad ibn Sa'bin said statements of this sort.
Those who read the books of the great Islamic scholars Abu Hasan as-Subki, his son Taj ad-din as-Subki and Imam al-'Izz ibn Jamaat, and those who study the statements said and written in response to him by the Shafii, Maliki and Hanafi 'ulama' living in his time, will see well that we are right.
Also, al-Maturidi and al-Ashari, the two imams of our madhhab in beliefs, were in the madhhab of Ahl as-Sunnat.

http://www.ummah.net/Al_adaab/bsalafy.html (4371 words)

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Â Imam al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazzali On Repentance (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)
Al-Ghazzali On Knowing Yourself and God (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)
Al-Ghazzali On the Treatment of Anger, Hatred and Envy (Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali, Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam)

http://store.talkislam.com/alghazali.html (4371 words)

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Â Adventures in Philosophy: A Brief History of Islamic Philosophy

Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, born in the northeastern part of the Persian empire, was a philosopher, theologian, mystic, and apologist, and one of the most revered personalities in the Muslim world.
In his spiritual autobiography The Deliverer from Error, Ghazali describes the great crisis that forced him in 1095 to abandon his brilliant professional career in Baghdad and to search for an inner, direct knowledge of the reality of God.
Ghazali, never a bigoted orthodox, both advocated and practiced tolerance.

http://www.radicalacademy.com/adiphilislam2.htm (4371 words)

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Â Al

Ghazali was a prolific writer, but the work that he is most famous for is the celebrated Ihya' Ulum al-Din or Revival of the Religious Sciences.
In the year 488/1095, Ghazali experienced a period of inner strugle, described in his autobiographical work, al-Munqidh min al-dalal, during which he went from skepticism through hypocritical belief to profound spiritual sincerity.
Ghazali is credited with having reconciled the exoteric and esoteric dimensions of Islam, which had, over the years, grown further and further apart due to excesses on both sides, and for his defense of Sunni orthodoxy against heresies and against philosophical principles which were unacceptable to Islam.

http://www.oneummah.net/hajj/alghazali.htm (4371 words)

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Â Malaspina Great Books

Abu Hamid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi'i al-Ghazali was born in 1058 A.D. in Khorasan, Iran.
Ghazali's major contribution lies in religion, philosophy and sufism.
Ghazali argued that an infinite time was related to an infinite space.

http://www.malaspina.org/home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=104 (4371 words)

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