I read the book, "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and Steven Weinberg’s review on it, Weinberg held that after al-Ghazzali no more science good science was produced. That al-Ghazzali basically destroyed Islamic sciences is this true?

Expanding on this I know that al-Ghazzali the most influential Muslim scholar after the Islamic prophet Mohammad or at least Wikipedia tells me so. Another comment made by a interesting person Neil deGrasse Tyson said al-Ghazzali began a trend in Islam that promoted piety over the vast philosophical and scientific enquiry that was taking place in almost exclusively in the Muslim world. So combined with Steven Weinberg and Niel deGrasse Tyson to my understanding is that al-Ghazālī was responsible for the end of the scientific dominance held by the Middle East at the time. I understand that such a decline trend would require a more complex foundation but was he a major contributor to the least? Also was al-Ghazzali a pro-fundamentalist Islam? I was on the /r/atheism subreddit and a thread compared Christianity and Judaism to becoming more secular institutions, unlike Islam which has still staid radically fundamental. While I don't believe that currently Islam is radically fundamental at all the question was al-Ghazzali a fundamentalist?

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I read the book, "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and Steven Weinberg’s review on it, Weinberg held that after al-Ghazzali no more science good science was produced. That al-Ghazzali basically destroyed Islamic sciences is this true?

Expanding on this I know that al-Ghazzali the most influential Muslim scholar after the Islamic prophet Mohammad or at least Wikipedia tells me so. Another comment made by a interesting person Neil deGrasse Tyson said al-Ghazzali began a trend in Islam that promoted piety over the vast philosophical and scientific enquiry that was taking place in almost exclusively in the Muslim world. So combined with Steven Weinberg and Niel deGrasse Tyson to my understanding is that al-Ghazālī was responsible for the end of the scientific dominance held by the Middle East at the time. I understand that such a decline trend would require a more complex foundation but was he a major contributor to the least? Also was al-Ghazzali a pro-fundamentalist Islam? I was on the /r/atheism subreddit and a thread compared Christianity and Judaism to becoming more secular institutions, unlike Islam which has still staid radically fundamental. While I don't believe that currently Islam is radically fundamental at all the question was al-Ghazzali a fundamentalist?

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I also asked this in the religion group since it's both a question of history but involves religion as well, feel free to post on both.

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Answer: http://openstudy.com/users/languageenthusiast#/updates/5425ac08e4b030e8ca98215a