Ihya Al Uloom | The revival of religious knowledge | Volume 1, Book 5 | Mysteries of Zakat (Part I)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shaikh Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) was a Persian Sahih-ul-Aqeedah Islamic scholar, Jurist, Theologian and Sufi Shaikh of Ihsan. Some people call him ‘the Reviver of Sahih Islam (المجدد في الإسلام), some call him ‘An Authority in Islam’ (حجة الإسلام), and some call him Imam Al-Ghazali (الإمام الغزالي). He belonged to the Shafi'i school of Islamic Jurisprudence and Ash’ari school of Theology. He was a prolific writer and who wrote many books on various Islamic subjects. Out of his many books, 70 are reported to have survived. Most of his books were revolutionary in nature, based on his research and personal observations. He played an important role in spreading Islamic Sufism and Islamic Sharia side by side. He was, perhaps the first scholar who tried to consolidate Islamic Sufism and the laws of Sharia together. He proved that Islamic Sufism compliments Islamic Sharia, and both these cannot be separated.