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If we carefully analyse the constitutions of the great Universities of Baghdad and Cordova, which were the nerve centres of Muslim intellectual activities for centuries, We rub our eyes in amazement to find these institutions, with no rezular organisation worthy of the name, · producing· legions of scholars in rapid succession, while the Indian Universities, with their elaborate system of education, hardly produce one in twenty five vears.
As he was a born mystic and a man entirely given to contemplation, he retired from his post at the age of for ty-nine years and ended his days in philosophical speculation, although for a time he continued to deliver sermons in different seats of learning such as Alexandria, Jerusalem and Damascus, which justly attracted crowds of eager listeners.
In modern times, the moral and mental sciences have made such progress and produced so many eminent thinkers in Europe, that many of his ideas will not appear new to us, but it must be borne in mind that they were formulated at a time when the whole of the civilized world was enshrouded in superstitious beliefs.
· In one of Imam Ghazzali's famous books· called the "Destruction of Philosophy, " he · maintains that the tendency towards rationalism in religion is the delusion under which all the nations of the world are labouring.