While the Seljuk dynasty's influence grew, Abu Suleiman Dawud Chaghri Beg married his daughter, Arslan Khatun Khadija to caliph Al-Qa'im in 1056. This marked the start of Seljuk influence over Caliphate. He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran), not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.

He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. Modern estimates place it at AH 448 (1056/7), on the basis of certain statements in al-Ghazali's correspondence and autobiography. The believed date of al-Ghazali's birth, as given by Ibn al-Jawzi, is AH 450 (1058/9).

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

Among his other works, the Tahāfut al-Falāsifa ('Incoherence of the Philosophers') is a significant landmark in the history of philosophy, as it advances the critique of Aristotelian science developed later in 14th-century Europe. This belief led him to write his magnum opus entitled Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm ad-dīn (' The Revival of the Religious Sciences'). Īl-Ghazali believed that the Islamic spiritual tradition had become moribund and that the spiritual sciences taught by the first generation of Muslims had been forgotten. His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded the honorific title 'Proof of Islam' ( Hujjat al-Islām).

Some Muslims consider him to be a Mujaddid, a renewer of the faith who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every century to restore the faith of the ummah ('the Islamic Community'). 1058 – 19 December 1111), known in Persian-speaking countries as Imam Muhammad-i Ghazali (Persian: امام محمد غزالی), was a Persian polymath, who was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians, jurists, logicians and mystics of Islam.

Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani, Al-Nawawi Ibn Tumart René Descartes Fakhruddin Razi Suyuti Maimonides Tan Malaka Thomas Aquinas Shah Waliullah Dehlawi David Hume Sayf al-Din al-Amidi Asad Mayhani Ali al-Qari Muhammad Ibn Yahya al-Janzi Īl-Ghazali ( UK: / æ l ˈ ɡ ɑː z ɑː l i/, US: / ˌ æ l ɡ ə ˈ z ɑː l i, - z æ l-/ full name أَبُو حَامِدٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ٱلطُّوسِيُّ ٱلْغَزَالِيُّ or ٱلْغَزَّالِيُّ, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġaz(z)ālīy Latinized Algazelus or Algazel c.

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