![]() After al-Juwayni's death in 1085, al-Ghazali departed from Nishapur and joined the court of Nizam al-Mulk, the powerful vizier of the Seljuq sultans, which was likely centered in Isfahan. He later studied under al-Juwayni, the distinguished jurist and theologian and "the most outstanding Muslim scholar of his time", in Nishapur, perhaps after a period of study in Gurgan. ![]() Al-Ghazali's contemporary and first biographer, 'Abd al-Ghafir al-Farisi, records merely that al-Ghazali began to receive instruction in fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) from Ahmad al-Radhakani, a local teacher. ![]() A posthumous tradition-the authenticity of which has been questioned in recent scholarship-tells that his father, a man "of Persian descent", died in poverty and left the young al-Ghazali and his brother Ahmad to the care of a Sufi. ![]() He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (today part of Iran). Modern estimates place it at AH 448 (1056/7), on the basis of certain statements in al-Ghazali's correspondence and autobiography. The believed date of al-Ghazali's birth, as given by Ibn al-Jawzi, is AH 450 (1058/9).
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