INFLUENCE OF HIS TEACHING

In his Development of Muslim Theology Professor Macdonald calls Ghazzali Al-Ghazali (1058–1111), a foundational Persian theologian, jurist, and mystic. “the greatest, certainly the most sympathetic figure in the history of Islam, and the only teacher of the after generations ever put by a Muslim on a level with the four great Imāms The founders of the four primary schools of Sunni Islamic law: Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali..” He further says of him: “Islam has never outgrown him, has never fully understood him. In the renaissance of Islam which is now rising to view, his time will come, and the new life will proceed from a renewed study of his works.”