His participations in religious debates and discussions made him popular over all Islamic territories.The vizier was so impressed by Al-Ghazali's scholarship that in 484 AH (1091 AD) he appointed him as chief professor in the Nizamiyya school of Baghdad. After the death of Al-Juwayni in 1085, Al-Ghazali was invited to the court of Nizamul Mulk, the powerful vizier of the Seljuq sultans.He was a very clever student, and shortly became one of the best scholars of his time.
He later moved to Naissabur where became a student of the famous Muslim scholar Al-Juwayni.The friend took care of educating the boys, and later in 1070, Al-Ghazali enrolled in a madrassah where he studied fiqh (jurisprudence). His father, a traditional sufi, died when he was still young, and entrusted one of his friends to take care of his sons. He was the reformer of the 5th Hijri century (مجدد القرن الخامس as it was believed that at the top of every hundred years there will come a scholar who revives the knowledges of religion), and was known as "The Proof of Islam" (Huggat Al-Islam) and "The Ornament of Religion", and is one of the most renowned Sunni religious scholars in all times.Īl-Ghazali was born in 450 AH (1058 AD) in the village of "Ghazala" near Tus, in Khorasan province of Persia. Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (450-505 AH, 1058-1111 AD) was one of the greatest Islamic Jurists, theologians and mystical thinkers.
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