He travelled widely in the eastern lands of Islam, often engaging in heated polemical confrontations. Living in the second half of the sixth century ah (twelfth century ad), he also wrote on history, grammar, rhetoric, literature, law, the natural sciences and philosophy, and composed one of the major works of Qur'anic exegesis, the only remarkable gap in his output being politics.
Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi was one of the outstanding figures in Islamic theology.
