He’s one of the towering intellectual and spiritual figures in the history of Islam and, I would argue, of philosophical theology anywhere. I’ll be speaking about him later today at BYU Education Week, so he’s somewhat on my mind:
“Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.”
“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”
Abu Hamid Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111)
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