[1] D. B. Macdonald: Muslim Theology London 1903. p. 215. This book gives the best account of Al Ghazzali’s work yet available in English.
[2] ibid. p. 240.
[3] Quoted in E. G. Browne: Literary History of Persia 1903. Vol. I. p. 294.
[4] ibid. p. 293.
[5] I. Goldzieher: Vorlesungen uber den Islam Leipzig 1910. p. 185. See translation in the Indian Philosophical Review by the present writer: Vol. 1. pp. 260-6.
[6] Op. cit. pp. 238-40.
[7] From Al Munqidh min ad’-Dalal.
[8] Gazali. Paris 1902. pp. 44-45.
[9] See the English translation of the Guide by Friedländer; The Guide to the Perplexed, London, especially pp. 225 ff. Al Ghazzali’s works were so widely studied that it is hardly possible to suppose that Maimonides was not influenced by them. The influence may have been direct, as Maimonides was not only a student in Spain but also physician in the court of Saladin in Alexandria. Indirectly the influence may have come through the Jewish poet Yehuda Halevi.
[10] op. cit. p. 179.