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He was the most famous intellectual in the Islamic world. He lectured to 300 students at the largest university of the medieval age. And then, one morning, his tongue stopped working. Not a metaphor. Literally. The doctors found nothing physically wrong. The diagnosis? His soul had given up on the life he was living.

What he did next, and what he discovered, changed the course of philosophy for a thousand years. Tonight, we live the story of Al-Ghazali's three deaths and three rebirths.

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