Al-Ghazali
In Our Time: Religion
Ther Gazali, a Sunni Scholar
Algazali was brought up as a sunny rather than a sheide now. The the sunny moslem world was very large and united. It was, on the other hand, threatened by the fatimed ismaili calipatin in cairo. And to be as suni was the majority group within the whole of the house of islam. So we find him, for example, write a brilliantly stinging attack on the extreme ismailes of cairo. Wafadal al mustatiria and the merits of those who follow almustatia. That's the caliph's name.
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