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Al-Ghazali

1058 - 1111

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Al-Ghazali (c. 1058 – 19 December 1111), archaically Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, theologians, logicians and mystics in Islamic history. He is considered to be the 11th century's mujaddid, a renewer of the faith, who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every 100 years to restore the faith of the Islamic community. Al-Ghazali's works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that he was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" (Ḥujjat al-Islām). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Ghazali is the 30th most popular philosopher (down from 29th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Iran (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Philosopher.

Al-Ghazali is most famous for writing the book "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" in which he argues that philosophy and science are not compatible with Islam.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Al-Ghazali ranks 30 out of 1,267. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer, Montesquieu, Democritus, Seneca the Younger, Epicurus, and Averroes. After him are Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Engels, Auguste Comte, Martin Heidegger, Maria Montessori, and Parmenides.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1058, Al-Ghazali ranks 1. After him are Baldwin I of Jerusalem, Odo I, Duke of Burgundy, and Andronikos Doukas. Among people deceased in 1111, Al-Ghazali ranks 1. After him are Bohemond I of Antioch, Robert of Molesme, Robert II, Count of Flanders, Roger Borsa, Antipope Sylvester IV, Berthold II, Duke of Swabia, and Otto II, Count of Habsburg.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Al-Ghazali ranks 4 out of 631. Before him are Xerxes I (-519), Cyrus the Great (-600), and Omar Khayyam (1048). After him are Zoroaster (-2000), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Abu Nuwas (762), Jabir ibn Hayyan (721), Harun al-Rashid (766), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Darius III (-380), and Ali Khamenei (1939).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Al-Ghazali ranks 1. After him are Al-Tabari (839), Bodhidharma (483), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Bayazid Bastami (804), Miskawayh (932), Mazdak (450), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Mulla Sadra (1571), Al-Baydawi (1201), and Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145).

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