High Middle Ages · Middle East · Religion
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Death of al-Ghazali
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The great Persian theologian who had walked out of his Baghdad professorship at forty, suffered a crisis of faith, spent a decade wandering as a Sufi, and returned to write an Islamic synthesis of reason and mysticism, died at his hometown of Tus. His influence on Sunni thought is hard to overstate.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.