Place
Tus
A city in northeastern Iran. Birthplace and burial place of Al-Ghazali. Also the birthplace of the poet Ferdowsi.
Thinkers Connected to Tus
Al-Ghazali
He held the most prestigious teaching post in the Islamic world, then abandoned it. Philosophy had failed him. Only direct experience of God would do.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Astronomer, mathematician, and ethicist who saved a library from the Mongols and built the observatory that reformed the model of the heavens.