Directory of al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid Resources

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Abu Hamid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi’i al-Ghazali (Algazel), 1058-1111. Noted medieval Sufi thinker. Although he was born and died in Khorasan, Iran (then called Tus), much of his working life was spent as a teacher in Baghdad. Known as a strong defender of Muslim orthodoxy. In philosophy, his chief legacy is his strong epistemological criticism of the philosophers' claim to knowledge.

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• Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

  http://www.ghazali.org/
  Basic information and an extensive collection of annotated links.

• Al-Ghazali

  http://mdhd.tripod.com/ghazali1.html
  A student project by Henry Snyder on this Sufi philosopher. Includes biography, intellectual background, and a review of a portion of The Incoherence of the Philosophers.

• Centre for Islam and Science - Al-Ghazali

  http://www.cis-ca.org/voices/g/ghazali.htm
  Biographical article by Mustafa Abu Sway. Includes lists of primary and secondary sources.

• The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/alghazali.html
  T.J. Winter's translation of this excerpt from Ghazali's The Revival of the Religious Sciences. From the Fordham Medieval Sourcebook.

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