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Al-Ghazali, who was then in a severe spiritual crisis four years later, left Baghdad and resigned from his job and all his responsibilities to the world.Īfter spending two years wandering through Syria and Palestine, and completing the pilgrimage to Mecca for two, al-Ghazali returned to Tus where he continued to write, teach his students, and continue his Sufi practice until his death. He returned to Nishapur and taught for a few more years at Nizamiyyah College. He was the intellectual head for the Islamic community and was constantly lecturing at the College on Islamic jurisprudence, as well as refuting heresies, and answering questions from all sections of the community. Best Sellers: Books for The Emotional Lives 8-10 Years oldĪl-Ghazali is a great Islamic jurist, theologian and mystical thinker. In his hometown of Tus in the northern region of Iran, he studied various Islamic religious sciences. From an early age, he was involved in Sufi practice. He was recognized by Nizam Al-Mulk, the vizir for the Seljuq Sultans, and was made head of Nizamiyyah College in Baghdad in ah 484, ad 1091.Best Sellers: Books for School-Age Children 7-9 Years old.Best Sellers: Books for Middle Childhood 6-8 Years old.

Īfter writing Maqasid al Falasifa, he wrote another book Tahāfut al-Falāsifa, criticizing the Avicennian school of early Islamic philosophy.

He also stated that he did not find other branches of philosophy including physics, logic, astronomy or mathematics problematic. Al-Ghazali stated that one must be well versed in the ideas of the philosophers before setting out to refute their ideas. In this book, he explained in detail about what philosophy is and described basic entities like judgement, concept, premise and logic. Influenced by Avicenna's works, he wrote this book presenting the basic theories of Philosophy. Maqasid al Falasifa ( Arabic: مقاصد الفلاسفة), or The Aims of the Philosophers was written by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazali.