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INTRODUCTION

sceptic he springs an into the all-God (i.e. all-pervading deity of the Pantheists) to kill all scientific reflection."[1] To justify such a judgment would indeed be impossible if the whole course of Ghazzali's works is taken into consideration. The greatest eulogy is perhaps that of Tholuck: "All that is good, worthy, and sublime, which his great soul had compassed, he bestowed upon Muhammedanism, and he adorned the doctrines of the Quran with so much piety and learning that in the form given them by him, they seem, in my opinion, worthy of the assent of Christians. Whatsoever was most excellent in the philosophy of Aristotle or in the Sufi mysticism, he discreetly adapted to the Muhammedan theology. From every school he sought the means of shedding light and honour upon religion, while his sincere piety and lofty conscientiousness imparted to all his writings a sacred majesty."[2]


  1. Quoted in E. G. Browne: Literary History of Persia 1903. Vol. I. p. 294.
  2. ibid, p. 293.