Much of Al-Ghazali's work stemmed around his spiritual crises following his appointment as the head of the Nizzamiyya University in Baghdad - which was the most prestigious academic position in the Muslim world at the time. Al-Ghazali was a prominent mujtahid in the Shafi'i school of law. Al-Ghazali's works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that he was awarded the honorific title " Proof of Islam" ( Ḥujjat al-Islām). He is considered to be the 11th century's mujaddid, a renewer of the faith, who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every 100 years to restore the faith of the Islamic community. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsult, legal theoretician, mufti, philosopher, theologian, logician and mystic in Islamic history.
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