Ghazali, al-

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Ghazali, al- (1058–1111) Muslim scholar and mystic. He wrote on law, philosophy, theology and mysticism. His greatest work, The Revival of the Religious Sciences, made Sufism an acceptable part of orthodox Islam.

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