Some Fundamental Aspects of Imam Ghazali's Thought

by Prof M Umaruddin

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About The Book

The book comprises of a research papers read before different sessions of the All India Philosophical Congress and in other learned societies and Published in well-known journals of country.

Writer of this book has garnered the pertinent materials to unravel the axiomatic and fundamental aspects besides acquainting with the thoughts of Imam Ghazali

About Imam Ghazali

Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali, famous in the world of learning as Imam al-Ghazzal was born in 450 AH (1058 A.D) in Persia.

He graduated from the Nizamia Madrasah at Nishapur, with distinction, a very famous educational institution in Nishapur.

Later he was appointed as a teacher at the Nizamia College in Baghdad, where he proved very successful in imparting knowledge to the scholars under his care.

This valuable gift of sustaining interest of his pupils and passing on his knowledge to them made him so famous that students from all parts of the country flocked to study under him.

Imam al-Ghazzali was fondly referred to as the "Hujjat-ul-lslam", Proof of Islam, he is honoured as a scholar and a saint by learned men all over the world.

Al-Ghazali is generally acclaimed as the most influential thinker of the Classical period of Islam, in his autobiography "The Deliverance from Error", the Imam describes his education and his intellectual crisis, which left him so paralysed by doubt that he gave up his academic pursuits and worldly interests and became a wandering ascetic.

This was a process (period) of mystical transformation. Later, he resumed his teaching duties, but again left these. An era of solitary life, devoted to contemplation and writing then ensued, which led to the authorship of a number of everlasting books (Many of which have been translated in English)