Ahmad Ghazali
Ahmad Ghazālī | |
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احمد غزالی | |
Ahmad Ghazālī pictured with a disciple in a 1552 miniature. | |
| Born | Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī 1061 |
| Died | 1123 Qazvin, Iran |
| Known for | Persian Sufi mystic, writer, preacher, and head of Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad |
| Notable work | Sawāneḥ, Risālat al-ṭayr, Al-tajrīd fī kalimat al-tawḥīd, Baḥr al-maḥabba fī asrār al-mawadda, Bawāriq al-ilmāʾ fī l-radd ‘alā man yuḥarrim al-samāʾ |
| Relatives | Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (brother) |
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Ahmad Ghazālī (Persian: احمد غزالی; full name Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī) was a Sunni Muslim Sufi mystic, writer, preacher and the head of Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad (c. 1061–1123 or 1126). He is best known in the history of Islam for his ideas on love and the meaning of love, expressed primarily in the book Sawāneḥ.