The Legacy of Imam Ghazali (rh)

Event overview

Our beloved Prophet ﷺ said: At the beginning of every century, Allāh will send to this ummah someone who will renew its religious understanding (Abū Dāwūd).

Across the vicissitudes of times, few people have been given the title ‘mujaddid’ (reviver or renewer) based upon the above ḥadīth. One such scholar who was given this title was none other than ‘The Proof of Islām’, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111)—widely considered both in Islamic and Western academia as a polymath and great thinker.

What are the main reasons that distinguished al-Ghazālī from his contemporaries and indeed the scholars after him? Why was he called a ‘mujaddid’ and ‘The Proof of Islam’? In this presentation, we will explore some of those reasons to gain a better insight into the mind of this erudite scholar, theologian and theorist.