Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher

“ GHAZĀLĪ [Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī] (1058–1111) , Arabian philosopher and theologian, was born at Tūs, and belonged to a family of Ghazāla (near Tūs) distinguished for its knowledge of canon law. Educated at first in Tūs, then in Jorjān, and again in Tūs, he went to college at Nīshāpūr, where he studied under Juwainī (known as the Imām ul-Ḥaramain) until 1085, when he visited the celebrated vizier Nizām ul-Mulk, who appointed him to a professorship in his college at Bagdad in 1091. ”

“ At the wish of the sultan Malik Shah he again undertook professorial work, this time in the college of Nizām ul-Mulk at Nīshāpūr, but returned soon after to Tūs, where he died in December 1111.
Sixty-nine works are ascribed to Ghazālī (cf. C. Brockelmann’s Gesch. d. arabischen Litteratur, i. 421-426, Weimar, 1898) . The most important of those which have been published are: a treatise on eschatology called Ad-durra ul-fākhira (“The precious pearl”) , ed. L. Gautier (Geneva, 1878) ; the great work, Ihyā ul-ʽUlūm (“Revival of the sciences”) (Bulaq, 1872; Cairo, 1889) ”

“ H. A. Homes as The Alchemy of Happiness (Albany, N.Y., 1873) ; the ethical work O Child, ed. by Hammer-Purgstall in Arabic and German (Vienna, 1838) ; the Destruction of Philosophers (Tahafūt ul-Falāsifa) (Cairo, 1885, and Bombay, 1887) . ”