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The earliest contact of Islam with Africa dates back to t...

The earliest contact of Islam with Africa dates back to the period of

A.

ibn Sīna

B.

al-Ghazālī

C.

ar-Rāzī

D.

Ibn Rushd

Correct answer is B

Another of al-Ghazali's major works is Ihya' Ulum al-Din or Ihya'u Ulumiddin (The Revival of Religious Sciences). It covers almost all fields of Islamic sciences: fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), kalam (theology) and sufism.
It contains four major sections: Acts of worship (Rub' al-'ibadat), Norms of Daily Life (Rub' al-'adatat), The ways to Perdition (Rub' al-muhlikat) and The Ways to Salvation (Rub' al-munjiyat). The Ihya became the most frequently recited Islamic text after the Qur'an and the hadith