THE INTERTWINING OF ETHICS AND POLITICS IN GHAZZALI'S THOUGH

Abu Hamed Mohammad Ghazzali is a great Muslem intellectual and Faqih in the fifth century(AH). An outstanding feature of his political thought is the intertwining of ethics and politics. He views politics from the perspective of religion and ethics. Thus, politics, in his view, is not the science of power and of how to attain power, but the means for moral improvement and guiding human beings to salvation in this world and the other world. His ideas can de studied in two ways: Sultanate and Caliphate.