" After years of suffering polemics, Abou El Fadl told me, "al-Ghazali died of a broken heart.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How the Saudis control the voice of Islam in America

Abou El Fadl tells the story of another of his teachers, Muhammad al-Ghazali.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How the Saudis control the voice of Islam in America

See also "Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, " by Ebrahim Moosa (June 2005) in which he argues that Ghazali's work has lasting relevance today.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Answering a critic of 'Shariah: The Threat to America'

In the run-up to the first election in yet another new district earlier this year, one academic, Effendi Ghazali, was invited onto a local radio talk show to offer a bit of civic education.

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