Al-Ghazali, Persian jurist, philosopher, theologian, and mystic (born 1058)

Al-Ghazali, archaically Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, theologians, logicians and mystics in Islamic history.