Shaken by epistemological doubt, he resolved to seek certitude ( yaqīn) as the underpinnings of his intellectual knowledge. This year signaled a deep identity crisis in Ḡazālī. Overcome by a severe physical illness and plagued by a nagging skepticism born of his intensive self-study of Islamic philosophy, Ḡazālī decided to abandon his teaching position in 488/1095 in favor of his brother Aḥmad. Appointed by Neẓām-al-Molk in 484/1091, Ḡazālī became an influential professor on Shafiʿite jurisprudence for four years at the Neẓāmīya madrasa in Baghdad (Glaasen, pp. In 478/1085, after the death of his teachers, Ḡazālī joined the circle of scholars at the camp and court of the Saljuq vizier Kᵛāja Neẓām-al-Molk (assassinated in 485/1092, q.v.), the patron of colleges ( madrasas) he had founded. 478/1085) in Nīšāpūr, where he also studied with the Sufi master Abū ʿAlī Fārmaḏī (d. After instruction in Islamic jurisprudence as a teenager in Jorjān, he became a student of the leading Ashʿarite theologian and Shafiʿite jurist Emām-al-Ḥaramayn Abu’l-Maʿālī Żīāʾ-al-Dīn ʿAbd-al-Malek Jovaynī (d. Latin form, Algazel honorific title, Ḥojjat-al-Eslām'The Proof of Islam”), was born at Ṭūs in Khorasan in 450/1058 and grew up as an orphan together with his younger brother Aḥmad Ḡazālī (d. A man of Persian descent, Ḡazālī (variant name Ḡazzālī Med.

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