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Al Ghazali has another book, which goes hand in hand with this one, called The Beginning of Guidance
(Bidayat al-Hidayah), which Allah-willing will be undertaken at a later time.
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
(Bidayat al-Hidayah), which Allah-willing will be undertaken at a later time.
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