Scholar·Abbasid
Death of Imam al-Ghazali in Tus
- Date
- December 1111 CE505 AH915 years ago
- Place
- Tus, Khorasan, Seljuk Empire
- People
- Al-Ghazali, Nizam al-Mulk
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali died in Tus, in the Seljuk realm, in December 1111. He taught at the Nizamiyya madrasa in Baghdad before leaving for a period of spiritual retreat. His book The Revival of the Religious Sciences joined law, ethics and Sufism. He also wrote The Incoherence of the Philosophers, a critique of the philosophers of his time.
Why it matters
The Revival of the Religious Sciences became one of the most widely read works in Islamic ethics and spirituality.