1058 - 1111
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 Algazelus or Algazel, 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 3,219,803 page views. His biography is available in 110 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Al-Ghazali is the 34th most popular philosopher (up from 38th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Iran (up from 4th 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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Among philosophers, Al-Ghazali ranks 34 out of 1,081. Before him are Averroes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Baruch Spinoza, Martin Heidegger, and Anaximander. After him are Diogenes, Laozi, Rajneesh, David Hume, Søren Kierkegaard, and Protagoras.
1126 - 1198
HPI: 82.99
Rank: 28
535 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 82.80
Rank: 29
501 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 82.29
Rank: 30
1632 - 1677
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 31
1889 - 1976
HPI: 81.59
Rank: 32
610 BC - 546 BC
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 33
1058 - 1111
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 34
404 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 35
604 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 36
1931 - 1990
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 37
1711 - 1776
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 38
1813 - 1855
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 39
486 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 40
Among people born in 1058, Al-Ghazali ranks 1. After him are Baldwin I of Jerusalem and Odo I, Duke of Burgundy. 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.
1058 - 1111
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 1
1058 - 1118
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 2
1058 - 1103
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 3
1058 - 1111
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 1
1054 - 1111
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 2
1024 - 1111
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 3
1065 - 1111
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 4
1060 - 1111
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 5
1100 - 1111
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 6
1050 - 1111
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 7
1100 - 1111
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 8
Among people born in Iran, Al-Ghazali ranks 3 out of 528. Before him are Zoroaster (-2000) and Omar Khayyam (1048). After him are Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Darius III (-380), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Harun al-Rashid (766), Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865), Ismail I (1487), and Jabir ibn Hayyan (721).
2000 BC - 2000 BC
HPI: 86.19
Rank: 1
1048 - 1131
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 2
1058 - 1111
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 3
600 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 4
519 BC - 475 BC
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 5
380 BC - 330 BC
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 6
1919 - 1980
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 7
1902 - 1989
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 8
766 - 809
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 9
865 - 925
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 10
1487 - 1524
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 11
721 - 815
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 12
Among philosophers born in Iran, Al-Ghazali ranks 1. After him are Al-Tabari (839), Bayazid Bastami (804), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Miskawayh (932), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Mazdak (450), Mulla Sadra (1571), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Al-Shahrastani (1086), Al-Baydawi (1201), and Al-Taftazani (1322).
1058 - 1111
HPI: 81.46
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839 - 923
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 2
804 - 874
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 3
1149 - 1209
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 4
932 - 1030
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 5
1155 - 1191
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 6
450 - 529
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 7
1571 - 1636
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 8
1209 - 1271
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 9
1086 - 1153
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 10
1201 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 11
1322 - 1390
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 12