Included is a children’s interactive website ( a pilot school project (read more about the launch of the Al Ghazali Children’s Project) and prison program. Fons Vitae is currently engaged in the monumental task of bringing out Ghazali’s Ihya in readable english for parents and teachers as well as adapting it for children with workbooks, school curricula and an instructional DVD. The Book of Knowledge and Book of Creed educational sets are available and in use internationally with Purity and Prayer nearing completion.
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Human thinking could never evolve, he argued, in an existential vacuum without awareness of the Divine.Ī man for all seasons, a scholar for all times, we hope that we will be able to contribute to this worthy idea of promoting the life, times and ideas of Imam al-Ghazali.Ībout the Speakers Aisha Gray-Henry (USA)Īisha Gray-Henry is the founder and director of the charitable foundation and publishing company Fons Vitae. Imam al-Ghazali was also fully proficient in Greek and Roman philosophy, and he debunked its central tenets, proving that Revelation was always going to be superior to human reason. Imam al-Ghazali was a scholar with the ability to transform the baseness of the human personality into the golden divine through works such as the “Ihya ‘Ulum ad-Din”.Īlready an acknowledged master of the Shariah, he re-entered society as an accomplished and practised Sufi – a true gnostic. Imam al-Ghazali challenged his students and readers with hypotheses that were quite shocking, but that would make one think and improves oneself as a human being.Īn alchemist – in its popular understanding – is a person who has the gift of turning base metals into gold. Given the fact that Imam al-Ghazali’s works are not easily accessible to ordinary Muslims, the conference aims to disseminate the distinguished scholar’s teachings in the simplest of forms. We hope that engaging the works and ideas of Imam al-Ghazali and their relevance to contemporary challenges will inspire our community to renew their approach to the Islamic tradition. Likewise, in the current period we find various competing political and intellectual approaches pervading Muslim societies. Imam al-Ghazali lived at a time where there was much political and sectarian strife plaguing the Muslim community.
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He felt that everything centers from the heart and that the true alchemy in human nature is turning the heart from bad to good. He was the rector of the Nizamya University in Baghdad and walked away from this position into the desert, because he felt that the ritualism had come to dominate Islam. Imam al-Ghazali has tremendous relevance to us today because of his ethos of the human heart being the center of the universe. The youth in particular, are left puzzled as to what exactly constitutes sharia and what its role is in their lives.
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Today there exists much confusion (and frustration?) around the different approaches to “Islam” within the body of the Ummah.
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He was a courageous academic and did not fear speaking out. Imam al-Ghazali was regarded as “Hujjatul Islam” the proof of Islam of the 11th Islamic century and is considered one of the greatest scholars of Islam. Read more about the speakers below.īook your Tickets for the Al-Ghazali Festival here: Mustafa Abu Sway (Palestine), Sheikh Hamzah Maqbul (USA) and Sheikh Sharif al-Banna (UK) and local speakers who will navigate his works, reflect on his teachings and share their insights. International scholars include, Sister Gray Henry (USA) and Prof. The aim of the conference is to bring the works of Al Ghazali to the centre stage, making them easily accessible to the Muslim public. The conference has an important role to play in reviving the messages that Imam al-Ghazali gave to the Ummah and their relevance today. One of Islam’s greatest scholars, Imam al-Ghazali, will be the focus of a unique conference and workshop the Al Ghazali Festival, set to take place in from 17th October to 27th October 2018 in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.