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Abu Hamid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi’i al-Ghazali (Algazel), 1058-1111. Noted medieval Sufi thinker. Although he was born and died in Khorasan, Iran (then called Tus), much of his working life was spent as a teacher in Baghdad. Known as a strong defender of Muslim orthodoxy. In philosophy, his chief legacy is his strong epistemological criticism of the philosophers' claim to knowledge.

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Al Ghazali and Averroes Lecture notes by R.J. Kilcullen about the controversy between these great medieval Islamic thinkers. www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/x52t07.html

The Window: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali Biography of this noted Persian Sufi thinker. www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/muslim/ghazali.html

Al-Ghazali's Website Basic information and an extensive collection of annotated links. From Islamic Philosophy Online. www.muslimphilosophy.com/gz

Imam al-Ghazali Biography and theological review by G.F. Haddad. www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/imam_alghazali.htm

The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife T.J. Winter's translation of this excerpt from Ghazali's The Revival of the Religious Sciences. From the Fordham Medieval Sourcebook. www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/alghazali.html

Al-Ghazali A student project by Henry Snyder on this Sufi philosopher. Includes biography, intellectual background, and a review of a portion of The Incoherence of the Philosophers. mdhd.tripod.com/ghazali1.html

Centre for Islam and Science - Al-Ghazali Biographical article by Mustafa Abu Sway. Includes lists of primary and secondary sources. www.cis-ca.org/voices/g/ghazali.htm