Showing posts with label Al-Ghazali. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al-Ghazali. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
The Significance of Imam al-Ghazālī's Works
Part 1: Who was Imam al-Ghazali?
1. Imam Al Ghazali is Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, abu Hamid Hujjat al-Islam al Ghazali al Tusi, The Shafi'i Imam, Proof of Islam, and sufi adept born in Tabiran, near Tus ( just north of the present day Mashhad, Iran), in 450/1058. The imam of his time, nicknamed Shafi'i the second for his legal viruousity, he was a brilliant intellectual who first studied jurisprudence at Tus, and then traveled the Islamic world to Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Mecca and Medina, taking sacred knowledge from its masters, among them the imam of the two sanctuaries Juwayni, with whom he studied until the imams death, becoming at his hands a scholar in Shafi'i law, logic, tenets of faith, debate, and in the rationalistic doctrines of the philosophical schools of his time, which he later was called upon to refute. When Juwayni died, Ghazali debated the Imams and scholars of Baghdad in the presence of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, who was so impressed that he appointed him to a teaching post at the Nizamiyya Academy in Baghdad, where word of his brilliance spread, and scholars journeyed to hear him.
2. He was known as "the Proof of Islam" (Hujja al-Islam), "Ornament of the Faith," "Gatherer of the Multifarious Sciences," "Great Siddîq," absolute mujtahid, a major Shafi'i jurist, heresiographer and debater, expert in the principles of doctrine and those of jurisprudence.
1. Imam Al Ghazali is Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, abu Hamid Hujjat al-Islam al Ghazali al Tusi, The Shafi'i Imam, Proof of Islam, and sufi adept born in Tabiran, near Tus ( just north of the present day Mashhad, Iran), in 450/1058. The imam of his time, nicknamed Shafi'i the second for his legal viruousity, he was a brilliant intellectual who first studied jurisprudence at Tus, and then traveled the Islamic world to Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Mecca and Medina, taking sacred knowledge from its masters, among them the imam of the two sanctuaries Juwayni, with whom he studied until the imams death, becoming at his hands a scholar in Shafi'i law, logic, tenets of faith, debate, and in the rationalistic doctrines of the philosophical schools of his time, which he later was called upon to refute. When Juwayni died, Ghazali debated the Imams and scholars of Baghdad in the presence of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, who was so impressed that he appointed him to a teaching post at the Nizamiyya Academy in Baghdad, where word of his brilliance spread, and scholars journeyed to hear him.
2. He was known as "the Proof of Islam" (Hujja al-Islam), "Ornament of the Faith," "Gatherer of the Multifarious Sciences," "Great Siddîq," absolute mujtahid, a major Shafi'i jurist, heresiographer and debater, expert in the principles of doctrine and those of jurisprudence.
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