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قدوم الغزالي دمشق متزهداً سنة 488

قدوم الغزالي دمشق متزهداً سنة 488

c. 1095 CE · 488 AH

Damascus

In 488 Imam al-Ghazali came to Damascus in zuhd, composed the Ihya' and had it read back to him there, stayed two years, then made hajj and returned home 1.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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1080109011001110 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Damascus

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موجز

في سنة ثمان وثمانين وأربعمائة قدم الإمام الغزالي دمشق متزهداً، وصنف بها كتابه إحياء علوم الدين وأسمعه بدمشق 1.

إقامته

أقام الغزالي بدمشق سنتين في زهده واعتزاله، ثم حج ورد إلى وطنه بعد ذلك 1.

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Occurred at
Damascus
Had participant
أبو حامد الغزالي

People and things also explored

the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· استيلاء العادل على دمشق· موقعة مرج راهط· بناء جامع دمشق· سقوط دمشق بيد أتسز· The Conquest of Damascus

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 384
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islam.museum contributors. “قدوم الغزالي دمشق متزهداً سنة 488”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/al-ghazali-damascus-retreat-488/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)

The mosque raised inside the cave of Mount Qasyun by Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim beginning in 370, after a dream in which Jibril bade him build a mosque where God's name would be remembered — he called it Jibril's Cave; a broad prayer-hall floored in white marble, its columns all marble, never empty of the pious at remembrance.