What is Al-Ghazali?
{{Infobox_Philosopher | image_name = | region = [[Muslim]] [[Persian scholar]] |image = Al-Ghazali.png | era = Medieval era ([[Islamic golden age]]) | color = #B0C4DE | name = '''Ghazali''' ('''Algazel''') | birth_date = c.1058 [[C.E.]] (450 [[Islamic calendar|AH]]) | death_date = 1111 [[C.E.]] (505 [[Islamic calendar|AH]]) | school_tradition = <small>[[Sufism]], [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] ([[Shafi`i|Shafi'ite]]), [[Ash'ari|Asharite]]<br /></small> | main_interests = [[Sufism]], [[Islamic theology|Islamic Theology]] ([[Kalam]]), [[Early Islamic philosophy|Islamic Philosophy]], [[Islamic psychology|Islamic Psychology]], [[Logic in Islamic philosophy|Logic]], [[Sharia|Islamic Law]], [[Fiqh|Islamic Jurisprudence]], [[Islamic astronomy|Cosmology]] | influences = [[Shafi'i]], [[Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari]], [[al-Juwayni]], [[Avicenna]] | influenced = [[Averroes]], [[Nicholas of Autrecourt]], [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Abdul-Qader Bedil]], [[René Descartes]], [[Maimonides]],<ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides-islamic/ The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, June 30 2005</ref> [[Ramón Martí|Raymund Martin]], [[Fakhr al-Din al-Razi|Fakhruddin Razi]], [[Shah Waliullah]]<ref>[http://www.netmuslims.com/info/philosophy.html Muslim Philosophy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928110305/http://www.netmuslims.com/info/philosophy.html |date=2007-09-28 }}, Islamic Contributions to Science & Math, netmuslims.com</ref> | notable_ideas = }} '''Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī''' (1058-1111) ({{lang-fa|'''ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد الغزالی'''}}), often '''Algazel''' in [[English language|English]], was born and died in [[Tus]], in the [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] province of [[Persia]]. He was an [[Islamic]] [[theologian]], [[Fiqh|jurist]], [[philosopher]], [[Astronomer|cosmologist]], [[psychologist]] and [[Sufism|mystic]] of [[Persian people|Persian]] origin,<ref>{{cite