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Title: A Moslem seeker after God : showing Islam at its best in the life and teaching of al-Ghazali, mystic and theologian of the eleventh century
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1867-1952
Subjects: Ghazzl, 1058-1111
Publisher: New York : Fleming H. Revell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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th menof every school of thought and followers of allmanners of religions and philosophies. When weremember this, we have the key to his enormousliterary productiveness. His horizon stretchedfrom Afghanistan to Spain, and from Kurdistanto Southern Arabia. What happened outside theDar ul Islam in infidel Europe was brought to thenotice of all by the Crusades. Men of learning had intercourse by correspond-ence with those of similar tastes in every part ofthe Moslem world. We have records of letters re-ceived by Al-Ghazali from Spain and Morocco aswell as from Egypt, Syria, and Palestine. Ques-tions of jurisprudence, philosophy, and theologywere referred by Sultans to celebrated authoritiesfor reply. All this produced the cosmopolitan at-mosphere we find in his works. The poet Moore describes Al-Ghazalis nativeland as ... the delightful Province of the Sun,The first of Persian lands he shines upon,Where, all the loveliest children of his beam,Flowerets and fruits blush over every stream,
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BIRTH AND EDUCATION 65 And, fairest of all streams, the Murga rovesAmong Merous bright palaces and groves. Khorasan, indeed, signifies the land of thesun, and was one of the four geographical divi-sions into which the ancient kingdom of the Sas-sanians was divided. They were named accordingto the cardinal points of the compass. After theArab conquests the name was used both for adefinite province and also in a looser sense for thewhole eastern region of Persia. Even now theboundaries of the province are scarcely determined.The total area is about 150,000 square miles, andthe present population not over 800,000. It wasdoubtless far more in Al-Ghazalis day. Towards the north and southwest Khorasan ismountainous. In the east the country is hilly, butbetween the mountain ranges there extend broadtracts of waste land. By far the most extensiveof these saline wastes is the Dasht-i-Kabir, or GreatSalt Desert of Khorasan. Throughout the prov-ince, and especially near Tus, the arid plains andt

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