Scholar · 1058 to 1111
al-Ghazali
Taught at the Nizamiyya college in Baghdad, then left to live as a Sufi. His Revival of the Religious Sciences is still one of the most read books in Islam.
At a glance
- Lived
- 1058 to 1111
- Role
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades and Salahuddin
- Chapter
- 3. The Abbasids, the Crusades and the Mongols
al-Ghazali's world
1190: The Crusades and Salahuddin
The Seljuk win at Manzikert in 1071 opened Anatolia to the Turks, and Byzantium asked Europe for help. The First Crusade took Jerusalem in 1099. Zengi, his son Nur al-Din and then Salahuddin rebuilt Muslim unity, and Salahuddin won back Jerusalem in October 1187, three months after Hattin.
People of the same era
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