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Al-Ghazali has sometimes been acclaimed in both East and West as the
greatest Muslim of his time and as the Proof of Islam and a great follower of
Prophet Muhammad, and he is by no means unworthy of that dignity. His
greatness rests above many on four things:
1) He was the leader in Islam‟s supreme encounter with Greek philosophy,
the encounter from which Islamic theology emerged victorious and enriched,
and in which Arabic Neo-Platonism received a blow from which it did not
recover.
2) During the revival of Greek philosophy in the middle ages, many
Christians (Nazarenes) were attracted and swayed by the persuasion of
Greek logic. In an effort to protect Christianity, Christian theologians relied
upon the profound arguments of Al Ghazali to defeat the adherents of Greek
philosophy and thereby protect their religion.
3) He illustrated the harmony between tradition and mysticism (Ihsan);
greatest Muslim of his time and as the Proof of Islam and a great follower of
Prophet Muhammad, and he is by no means unworthy of that dignity. His
greatness rests above many on four things:
1) He was the leader in Islam‟s supreme encounter with Greek philosophy,
the encounter from which Islamic theology emerged victorious and enriched,
and in which Arabic Neo-Platonism received a blow from which it did not
recover.
2) During the revival of Greek philosophy in the middle ages, many
Christians (Nazarenes) were attracted and swayed by the persuasion of
Greek logic. In an effort to protect Christianity, Christian theologians relied
upon the profound arguments of Al Ghazali to defeat the adherents of Greek
philosophy and thereby protect their religion.
3) He illustrated the harmony between tradition and mysticism (Ihsan);