Pioneers Of Islamic Administration

Al-Ghazali
 Biography of Al-Ghazali
Full Name : Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsīy al-Ġazālīy
‫أبو حامد محمد ٱبن محمد ٱلطوسي ٱلغزالي‬ 
Known as : Al Ghazali
Born at : born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus , Khorasan (now part
of Iran )
Die :19 Disember 1111 ( 52-53 Y)
History of Al-Ghazali Education
• His father died while he was still very young but he had the
opportunity of getting education in the prevalent curriculum at
Nishapur and Baghdad.
• He acquired a high standard of scholarship in religion and philosophy
and was honoured by his appointment as a Professor at the Nizamiyah
University of Baghdad, which was recognised as one of the most
reputed institutions of learning in the golden era of Muslim history.
• After a few years, he gave up his academic pursuits and worldly
interests and became a wandering ascetic.
• This was a process (period) of personal mystical transformation.
• He resumed his teaching duties, but again left these.
• An era of solitary life, devoted to contemplation and writing then
ensued, which led to the author- ship of a number of everlasting books
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• Ihya al-'Ulum al-Islamia (The Rivival of the Religious • al-Munqidh min al-dalal
Sciences), "The Beginning of Guidance and his
Autobiography", "Deliverance from Error". • Minhaj al-'Abidin
• al-Munqidh min al-dalal • Fada'ih al-Batiniyya(The Infamies of the Esotericists and
the Virtues of the Exotericists)
• Hujjat al-Haq
• Maqasid al falasifa[The Intentions of the Philosophers.]
• Al-Iqtisād fī al-iʿtiqad al-maqsad al-asna fi sharah asma'
Allahu al-husna • Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers)

• Jawahir al-Qur'an wa duraruh • Miyar al-Ilm fi fan al-Mantiq

• Fayasl al-tafriqa bayn al-Islam wa-l-zandaqa • Mihak al-Nazar fi al-mantiq

• Al-radd al-jamil li-ilahiyyat ‘Isa bi-sarih al-Injil • al-Qistas al-mustaqim

• Mishkat al-Anwar(The Niche for Lights) • Fatawy al-Ghazali

• Tafsir al-yaqut al-ta'wil • Al-wasit fi al-mathab

• Mizan al-'amal • Kitab tahzib al-Isul

• Ihya'e Ulum-ed'Deen Bidayat al-hidayah • al-Mustasfa fi 'ilm al-isul Asas al-Qiyas

• Kimiya-yi sa'ādat • The Jerusalem Tract

• Nasihat al-muluk Source : http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/AG_DFE/introduction.htm

 Books
1. The Revival of Religious Sciences(Ihya' Ulum al-Din)

• contains four major sections

• Acts of worship (Rub' al-'ibadat)
• Norms of Daily Life (Rub' al-'adatat)
• The ways to Perdition (Rub' al-muhlikat)
• The Ways to Salvation (Rub' al-munjiyat).

Admirable comments were made regarding this book: "If all Islamic sciences were disappeared, they could
be taken back from Ihya'u Ulumiddin."
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2. The Alchemy of Happiness
• contains
• The Alchemy of Happiness
1. Knowledge of Self
2. Knowledge of God
3. Knowledge of the World
4. Knowledge of the Future World
• Disciplining the Soul
1. how one can develop himself into a person with positive attributes and good personal characteristics
2. specific focus: sexual satisfaction and gluttony
• The Eternity of the World
 Nasihat al muluk
translated by FRC Bagley 1964
1. (Ottoman Turkish: \‫ ن\صيحت ن\امه‬, Naṣīḥat-nāme) were a type of guidance letter
for Ottoman sultans, similar to mirrors for princes.They draw on a variety of
historical and religious sources, and were influenced by the governance of
previous empires such as the Seljuk Turks or the Mongols, as well as by early
Muslim history and by contemporary events.
2. Mirrors for princes - textbooks which directly instruct kings or lesser rulers
on certain aspects of rule and behaviour, but in a broader sense the term is also
used to cover histories or literary works aimed at creating images of kings for
imitation or avoidance