Muslim theologian and philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali of Persia worked to systematize Sufism, Islamic mysticism, and in The Incoherence of the Philosophers (1095) argued the incompatibility of thought of Plato and Aristotle with Islam.
Born in 1058, Ab奴 岣つ乵id Mu岣mmad ibn Mu岣mmad al-Ghaz膩l墨 ranked of the most prominent and influential Sunni jurists of his origin.
Islamic tradition considers him to be a Mujaddid, a renewer of the faith who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every century to restore the faith of the ummah ("the Islamic Community"). His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" (Hujjat al-Islam).
Al-Ghazali believed that the Islamic spiritual tradition had become moribund and that the spiritual sciences taught by the first generation of Muslims had been forgotten.[24] That resulted in his writing his magnum opus entitled Ihya 'ulum al-din ("The Revival of the Religious Sciences"). Among his other works, the Tah膩fut al-Fal膩sifa ("Incoherence of the Philosophers") is a significant landmark in the history of philosophy, as it advances the critique of Aristotelian science developed later in 14th-century Europe.
Through this book I became a born again Muslim. He is a genius in explaining the existence of god through philosophical argument. If I never had read this book, I will surely be strayed into agnosticism or into atheism. Read this back to back then you will lead a better life. Reading this also will make you a skinnier and healthier person.
This was an excellent book that touched my heart. This book is a great translation of the original, and I hope that others enjoy it as much as I did. I think it's important for everybody seeking religious studies to read this book.
This is a new and beautiful translation of the first book of al-Ghazali's amazing compendium Ihyaa' 'uluum al-Din. It sets the blueprint as it were for the rest of the 40 books. True knowledge is at the foundation of everything, and religious knowledge being used to manipulate people by what al Ghazali calls the "learned" of this world or "the reprehensible scholars" is what Islam and other religions have been suffering from for quite a while. Al-Ghazali also talks about the pitfalls (mainly about ego) of pursuing knowledge --- No wonder Hamza Yusuf, who wrote the foreword, told a recent conference of Muslims, "Everyone needs to read this!" This book leads the way in Fons Vitae's al-Ghazali's project described on their website.