Al-Ghazali dies at Tus, having left the Nizamiyya chair in spiritual crisis and returned to teaching through Sufism; his Revival of the Religious Sciences joins law, theology, and the Sufi path into the synthesis that shapes Sunni piety for a millennium.
Tagged: Ash'ari Muslim Sufi Orders Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 1111 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Tus; today Mashhad, Iran
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam, Sufi Orders, Ash'ari
- Key figures
- Al-Ghazali
- Key texts
- Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya Ulum al-Din), The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Primary Sources
- Ihya Ulum al-Din
Secondary Sources
- Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path (Oxford, 4th ed. 2011)
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
Provenance: HIST-0232; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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