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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 22
We recommend that you read "Pure Faith Defined" by Imam Ghazali available at
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in great detail and defines faith.
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali was born at Tus in Persia in 450 A.H. (1058
7
A.D.) His father died when he was quite young, but the guardian saw to it that he
and his brother received a good education. After the young Ghazali had spent
some years of study under the greatest theologian of the age, al-Juwayni the
Ihsanic (Sufi) Imam of al-Haramayn, his outstanding intellectual gifts were noted
by Nizam al-Mulk, the powerful minister (vizier) of the Turkish sultan, who ruled
the `Abbasid caliphate of Baghdad. He appointed Ghazali professor at the
university he had founded in the capital. Thus at the age of thirty-three he had
attained one of the most distinguished positions in the academic world of his day.
Four years later at 37 years of age, he met a crisis; it had physical symptoms
Mosque.com, a translation of Imam Ghazali's greatest work, in which he explores
in great detail and defines faith.
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali was born at Tus in Persia in 450 A.H. (1058
7
A.D.) His father died when he was quite young, but the guardian saw to it that he
and his brother received a good education. After the young Ghazali had spent
some years of study under the greatest theologian of the age, al-Juwayni the
Ihsanic (Sufi) Imam of al-Haramayn, his outstanding intellectual gifts were noted
by Nizam al-Mulk, the powerful minister (vizier) of the Turkish sultan, who ruled
the `Abbasid caliphate of Baghdad. He appointed Ghazali professor at the
university he had founded in the capital. Thus at the age of thirty-three he had
attained one of the most distinguished positions in the academic world of his day.
Four years later at 37 years of age, he met a crisis; it had physical symptoms