The Last Days of al-Ghazzali and the Tripartite Division of the Sufi World: Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali's Letter to the Seljuq Vizier and Commentary From: The Muslim World | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Brown, Jonathan A C | Copyright Blackwell Publishing Jan 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Introduction

In 504AH/1110CE, the head of the Baghdad Nizamiyya college, 'Ali Kiya Harasi,1 died, and Seljuq officials felt that the only suitable replacement would be the great scholar and former rector of the school, Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali. Muhammad b. Fakhr al-Mulk b. Nizam al-Mulk, fully the third generation of his family to serve as Seljuq vizier and call al-Ghazzali to teach, sent word to the aging Sufi master in his native city of Tus. In his response, al-Ghazzali hints that his ...

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