Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufism His Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal) and Five Key Texts,9781887752305

Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufism His Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal) and Five Key Texts

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781887752305
ISBN10: 1887752307
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Fons Vitae
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Summary

This text has long been recognized as not only an Islamic classic, but also as a great spiritual autobiography of one of the world's greatest religious thinkers. It is the narrative of how one dedicated seeker of true knowledge and salvation, having probed various systems of thought and differing paths of learning and enlightenment, discovered the peace of the inner life and discipline of mystical spirituality.

Author Biography

Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali is generally acclaimed as the most influential thinker of medieval Islam; his writings have been regarded as the greatest in spirituality and have been, for centuries, the most read work after the Qur'an in the Muslim world.

Table of Contents

Preface 9(15)
David Burrell
Introduction 15(2)
William A. Graham
DELIVERENCE FROM ERROR 17(64)
The Avenues to Sophistry and Skepticism
21(3)
The Categories of Those Who Seek the Truth
24(1)
The Aim and Purport of the Science of Kalam
25(2)
Philosophy
27(2)
The Categories of the Philosophers and the Fact That the Stigma of Unbelief Is Common to All of Them
29(2)
The Divisions of the Philosophical Sciences
31(11)
The Doctrine of Taclimism and Its Danger
42(9)
Discussion of the Ways of the Sufis
51(8)
The True Nature of Prophecy and the Need All Men Have for It
59(5)
The Reason for Resuming Teaching after Having Given it Up
64(17)
Doctors of Hearts
64(2)
The Slackness of Faith
66(3)
My Return to Teaching
69(3)
Remedies for the Tepid
72(9)
Notes to the Translation 81

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