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Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058–1111 CE) is one of the most influential scholars in Islamic history, known as Hujjat al-Islam (The Proof of Islam). He was a renowned theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic. He passed away in 505 AH (1111 CE) in his hometown of Tus, in present-day Iran, leaving behind a monumental intellectual legacy including his famous work Ihya Ulum al-Din.

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Imam Ghazali was born in 450 Hijri (1058 CE) in Tus, Persia. He served as a professor at the Nizamiyya Madrasa in Baghdad and authored numerous influential works spanning theology, philosophy, jurisprudence, and Sufism. His most celebrated work, Ihya Ulum al-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), remains widely studied across the Muslim world to this day.

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