Author: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ghazzālī
Alternate names: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ghazzalī; Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ghazzālī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ghazzīlī; Ahmad Ghazālī; Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī; احمد غزالی
Born: c. 1061
Died: 1126
Bio: Sunni Muslim Persian Sufi mystic, writer, preacher and the head of Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad. He is best known in the history of Islam for his ideas on love and the meaning of love, expressed primarily in the book Sawāneḥ.