Ahmad Ghazali

Ahmad Ghazālī
Ahmad Ghazālī
احمد غزالی
Born	Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī; 1061; near Tūs, Khorasan
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)

Ahmad Ghazālī (Persian: احمد غزالی; full name Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī) was a Sunni Muslim Persian Sufi mystic, writer, preacher and the head of Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad (c. 1061–1123 or 1126).^[1] He is best known in the history of Islam for his ideas on love and the meaning of love,^[2] expressed primarily in the book Sawāneḥ.

^ Nasrollah Pourjavady, "ḠAZĀLĪ,MAJD-AL-DĪN Abu’l-Fotūḥ AḤMAD b. Moḥammad b. Moḥammad b. Aḥmad" in Encyclopedia Iranica. [1] accessed 2012.
^ E.B.Lumbard, Joseph (2016). Ahmad al Ghazali Remembrance and the Metaphysics of Love. SunnyPress. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-43845-965-3.

[1] Nasrollah Pourjavady, "ḠAZĀLĪ,MAJD-AL-DĪN Abu’l-Fotūḥ AḤMAD b. Moḥammad b. Moḥammad b. Aḥmad" in Encyclopedia Iranica. [1] accessed 2012.

[Lumbard-2] E.B.Lumbard, Joseph (2016). Ahmad al Ghazali Remembrance and the Metaphysics of Love. SunnyPress. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-43845-965-3.

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Ahmad Ghazālī
احمد غزالی
Born	Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī 1061 (1061) near Tūs, Khorasan
Died	1123 (1124) 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)