PHILOSOPHER

Al-Ghazali

1058 - 1111

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Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (Arabic: أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali (Arabic: ٱلْغَزَالِيُّ; UK: , US: ; c. 1058 – 19 December 1111), known in Medieval Europe by the Latinized Algazel or Algazelus, was a Persian Sunni Muslim polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, theologians, logicians and mystics in Islamic history. He is considered to be the 11th century's mujaddid, a renewer of the faith, who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every 100 years to restore the faith of the Islamic community. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Ghazali has received more than 3,444,350 page views. His biography is available in 115 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 110 in 2019). Al-Ghazali is the 29th most popular philosopher (up from 34th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Iran (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Philosopher.

Al-Ghazali is most famous for writing the book "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" in which he argues that philosophy and science are not compatible with Islam.

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  • 115

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Al-Ghazali ranks 29 out of 1,267. Before him are Epicurus, Seneca the Younger, Friedrich Engels, Averroes, Auguste Comte, and Thomas Hobbes. After him are Erasmus, Diogenes, Parmenides, Baruch Spinoza, Anaximander, and Al-Farabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1058, Al-Ghazali ranks 1. After him are Baldwin I of Jerusalem, Odo I, Duke of Burgundy, and Andronikos Doukas. Among people deceased in 1111, Al-Ghazali ranks 1. After him are Bohemond I of Antioch, Robert of Molesme, Robert II, Count of Flanders, Roger Borsa, Antipope Sylvester IV, Berthold II, Duke of Swabia, and Otto II, Count of Habsburg.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Al-Ghazali ranks 2 out of 631. Before him are Omar Khayyam (1048). After him are Zoroaster (-2000), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ali Khamenei (1939), Darius III (-380), Harun al-Rashid (766), Ismail I (1487), and Abu Nuwas (762).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Al-Ghazali ranks 1. After him are Al-Tabari (839), Bodhidharma (483), Bayazid Bastami (804), Miskawayh (932), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Mazdak (450), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Mulla Sadra (1571), Al-Baydawi (1201), and Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892).

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