# al-Ghazali

- id: al-ghazali
- name in original script: أبو حامد الغزالي
- also known as: Algazel
- dates: 1058–1111
- roles: author

Jurist, theologian and Sufi of Tus and Baghdad, the most influential critic of the Aristotelian philosophers in Islam. Latin Europe, reading his survey of their doctrines without its preface, took him for their loyal disciple and called him Algazel.

## Works in the atlas

- Aims of the Philosophers (maqasid)

## Sources

- Griffel, Frank (2025). al-Ghazali.