This thesis tries to bring together al-Ghazali's thoughts about different aspects of education,
scattered in numbers of works of different kinds and aims at presenting his educational
theory in its complete picture. His life, his intellectual career, his mental crises, as well as the
solution to these crises were deeply influential in the formation of his educational thought;
and it appears that al-Ghazali was remarkably successful in absorbing the conflicting
schools of thought of his time. The theoretical aspect of his educational thought consists of a …

Education, it can be said, is an aspect of Islamic civilization about which not much
information is to be found in comparison with other aspects of the saille civilization. When in
1954 Ahmad Shalabļ published his book, Historv of Mus/im Education, he opened his
introduction with a complaint concerning the scarcity of materials on education that migr. t be
consulted when he was writing the boole'5halabļ's complaint seems ta be justified since
almost a decade later anothcr major scholar of this field declared that" the history of Muslim …