How much do you know about Al-Ghazali

• Al-Ghazali was a Muslim scholar and spiritualist of Persian descent born in c. 1058 in Tus, Iran.
• He received instruction in fiqh from local teachers and later studied under al-Juwayni in Nishapur.
• He joined the court of Nizam al-Mulk and was advanced to the prestigious professorial position at the Nizamiyya madrasa in Baghdad.
• He underwent a spiritual crisis in 1095 and adopted an ascetic lifestyle, spending several years in seclusion in Tus.
• He continued to publish, receive visitors, and teach in private institutions during his seclusion.
• Fakhr al-Mulk pressed him to return to the Nizamiyya in Nishapur, which he reluctantly did in 1106.
• He declined an invitation to return to Baghdad in 1110 and died on December 19, 1111.
• He had several daughters but no sons.
• His father died in poverty, and he was left to the care of a Sufi, according to a posthumous tradition.
• The authenticity of this tradition has been questioned in recent scholarship.

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