**Abu Hamid al-Ghazali **(1058-1111) is the most famous theologian-mystic of Islam and the equivalent of Thomas Aquinas in Christianity and Maimonides in Judaism. His contribution to the formation of Islamic thought and mysticism is incalculable.TJ Winter is Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies ...

**Abu Hamid al-Ghazali **(1058-1111) is the most famous theologian-mystic of Islam and the equivalent of Thomas Aquinas in Christianity and Maimonides in Judaism. His contribution to the formation of Islamic thought and mysticism is incalculable.TJ Winter is Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.