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Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published online on June 30, 2009
Journal of Islamic Studies, doi:10.1093/jis/etp027
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Al-Mazari al-Dhaki: al-Ghazai's Maghribi Adversary in Nishapur1

Kenneth Garden

Tufts University


  Abstract

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's letters provide a terse and sometimes contradictory description of a controversy that erupted after he returned to teaching in Nishapur in 499/1106. This account refers to an unnamed Maghribi Maliki who played a role in the controversy by denouncing al-Ghazali to men of the state at the urging of the latter's Nishapuri enemies. This article proposes an identity for the Maghribi: a Sicilian religious scholar named Abu lhringAbd Allah Muhammad Ibn Abi al-Faraj al-Mazari, known as al-Dhaki (d. 510/1116). An examination of seven of his biographies corroborates some charges against al-Ghazali mentioned in the letters, gives a year for the controversy, and reveals some of the strategies used by al-Ghazali's enemies to try to cause his downfall. An appendix considers and dismisses the possibility that a surviving critique of Ihyarhring lhringulum al-din entitled al-Kashf wa-l-anbarhring lhringan kitab al- Ihyarhring was authored by the same al-Mazari.


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