Revival of the Religious Sciences

After becoming an eminent professor at the Niẓāmiyyah seminary in Baghdad, al-Ghazālī was beset by a deep spiritual crisis which forced him to abandon his career and withdraw from public life. It is in this period of retreat, meditation and soul-searching, which lasted ten years, that he wrote his major work, Revival of the Religious Sciences. In this book, he sought to breathe life into the religious knowledge which were, by his time, mostly sought to gain status, fame and worldly comfort....