After a brief career at the Nizamiyah of Nishapur, he spent the last five years of his life in his native town teaching and writing. This was to be a watershed in his personal life and in the intellectual history of Islam. When he returned he had found the object of his search in Sufism. He left his position at the Nizamiyah, withdrew from practical life, and spent eleven years in travel, meditation, and reflection. Losing faith in the efficacy and purpose of the learning he had acquired and was now disseminating, he searched for the truth and certitude that alone could set his moral doubt at rest. After teaching there for several years, al-Ghazali suffered a crisis of confidence. He gained distinction in the court of the Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Musk, and at the age of thirty-four he was appointed professor at the Nizamiyah college at Baghdad.
studied mysticism, theology, and law with a number of teachers, including the famous Ash’ari theologian Abu al-Ma’ali al-Juwayni. When he died at the age of fifty-two, he had attempted, with an exceptionally perspicacious mind and a powerful pen, a grand synthesis of the Islamic sciences that has ever since evoked the wonder and admiration of scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim.īorn in 1058 in Tus in the province of Khurasan in Iran, al-Ghazali. Few individuals in the intellectual history of Islam have exerted influence as powerful and varied as did Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. GHAZALI, ABU HAMID AL- (1058-1111), or Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, medieval Muslim theologian, jurist, and mystic.
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