# PJ 2
By the age of 33 Ghazali was appointed a professor in Baghdad, where he became recognized as an authority on canon law.
_____ (Q) His greatest work of synthesis was in The Revivification of the Religious Sciences, which also argues that only the Sufi emphasis on inner devotion can fulfill the strict demands of the Qur'an.
_____ (R) In spite of his success, Ghazali entered a period of spiritual crisis.
_____ (S) Therefore, in 1095 Ghazali became a wandering ascetic, returning to the Sufism of his youth, spending 11 years in meditation and retirement, until a Sultan persuaded him to teach again.
_____ (T) As he wrote in his autobiography: "I examined my motives in my work of teaching, and realized that it was not a pure desire for the things of God, but that the impulse moving me was the desire for an influential position and public recognition."
_____ (U) In the public teachings and writings which followed his retirement, Ghazali set forth a synthesis of orthodox theology and mysticism.
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