The Intellectual Thought of Al-Ghazali

This study investigates the intellectual legacy of Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111), an influential thinker of the classical Islamic period. Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée study Ghazali's major Persian-language text Kimiya-e sa?adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) presenting a new understanding of Ghazali as a reformer of his own time.