al-Ghazālī, Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Corrado, Monica
Leiden
Brill
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Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1917-96) was a prominent Egyptian scholar and Islamic writer and a member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood from the late 1930s until his expulsion, in December 1953. 1. Education, career, and political activism Muḥammad al-Ghazālī was born on 22 September 1917 in a village in the Egyptian delta province of Buḥayra, the eldest son of a merchant family. He died in Riyadh on 9 March 1996. He attended Qurʾān school in his native village and was instructed in the Prophetic Traditions (sunna) at home. Later