The Man Who Doubted Everything, 500 Years Before Descartes | Al-Ghazali

This is the story of Imam al-Ghazali: the orphan from Tus who doubted everything 500 years before Descartes, took on the philosophers, and walked away from the top job in the Muslim world to find certainty. 📌 Chapters 0:00 Baghdad, 1095: he lost his voice 0:38 From orphan to the top 2:13 The man who doubted everything 3:10 War with the philosophers 4:07 The collapse 5:04 Ten years in hiding, and the return 6:11 Did Ghazali end science? 6:59 Dawn in Tus 📚 Sources Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al... Encyclopaedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/... Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://iep.utm.edu/ghazali/ No authentic portrait of al-Ghazali exists. The thumbnail face is an artist's imagining. 🔔 Subscribe to Before The West for more stories from the Islamic Golden Age. 💬 Which scholar should we cover next? Tell us in the comments. #alghazali #islamichistory #islamicgoldenage