Al-Ghazzali: Difference between revisions

al-Ghazali (ٱلْغَزَّالِيُّ) was a Persian [[Islamic]] scholar who was, among other things, one of the most prominent philosophers, Ash'arite theologians, Shafi'i jurists, and mystics of [[Sunni]] Islam. He is widely considered a Mujaddid (one of the centennial revivers of Islam predicted by [[Muhammad]], and enjoys immense authority in the Sunni Islamic tradition. His ''magnum opus'' was the ''Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm ad-dīn'' ("The Revival of the Religious Sciences"), through which he advanced the "spiritual sciences" as central to Islam. He is equally well known for his ''Tahāfut al-Falāsifa'' ("Incoherence of the Philosophers"), through which he critiqued Aristotelianism in particular, and philosophy more generally, ushering, many would argue, the decline of philosophical enterprise in the Muslim world.<ref><nowiki>https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/al-ghazali/</nowiki></ref>