Al-Ghazali

The Philosophy Archive Dialogues · Aug 27, 2026 · 34m

In eleventh-century Persia, a young scholar named al-Ghazali found himself caught between worlds—one ruled by the authority of revelation, the other by the dazzling logic of philosophy. For him, learning was a battlefield, not a refuge. What could you trust when the very grounds of certainty were in dispute?Al-Ghazali’s world was anything but placid. Born in Tus, in the region of Khorasan, he grew up in an empire where scholars did not simply study—they competed for influence, for truth, for the right to shape souls. The air was thick with argument: over the meaning of scripture, the limits…