Al-Gazali was the most cited Islamic author among Moriscos after the Koran itself.

Evidence

Of the great Ihya ulum al-din (Rebirth of theological sciences) we have merely a fragment of some six folios in the Almonacid hoard. As for the Jawahir al-quran (Jewels of the Koran—there is a single Borgiano manuscript) and as for the Kitab al-arbain fiusul al-din (The forty on the foundations of religion) we have a manuscript in the same collection and also one in the National Library in Madrid; there related works together make up a treatise giving what sets out to be an abridged but complete account of Islamic theology on the basis of forty key Koranic texts (the “jewels” referred to in the title). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 737

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why survive only fragments and abridgments of al-Gazali among crypto-Muslims, given his preeminence — sheer practicality, or something about how his works circulated?