Overview

Al-Ghazali on Conduct in Travel is a translation of the seventeenth book of the Revival of the Religious Sciences. In it, Ghazali explains the different outer and inner reasons for travel. Outer reasons include the pilgrimage, the search for knowledge, and the flight from danger; while inner reasons include the acquisition of virtue and the disciplining of the soul. Ghazali divides travel into four classes, and portrays the right inward and outward conduct for each. He then follows this with a practical chapter on the use of religious concessions while travelling, and concludes with a final chapter on how the traveller is to establish the proper direction and times for prayer.

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Author:   Abu Hamid al-Ghazali ,  Leonard Librande
Publisher:   The Islamic Texts Society
Imprint:   The Islamic Texts Society
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9781903682449

ISBN 10:   1903682444
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   01 December 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Al-Ghazali's Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences Abbreviations Preface Introduction Notes to Introduction Prologue Chapter One: On the Forms of Conduct from the First Start until the Final Return and On Travel’s Intention and Advantage    Section One: Travel's Advantages, Merit and Intention    Section Two: On The Traveller’s Forms of Conduct from His Initial Start Until His Final Return Chapter Two: On What the Traveller Must Learn of the Concessions in Travel and the Indicators for the Qibla and the Times [for Prayer]    The First Division: Knowledge of the Concessions in Travel    The Second Division: Tasks Rendered Necessary because of Travel Notes Appendix: Persons Cited in Text Bibliography Index to Qur'anic Quotations General Index

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...the series as a whole, [is] a significant contribution to our understanding of this key figure in Islamic intellectual thought. ---Oliver Leaman, BRISMES Bulletin.

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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111), theologian, logician, jurist and mystic, was born and died in Tus in Central Asia, but spent much of his life lecturing at Baghdad or leading the life of a wandering dervish. His most celebrated work, Revival of the Religious Sciences, has exercised a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history by exploring the mystical significance of the practices and beliefs of Islamic orthodoxy, earning him the title of Hujjat al Islam, the ‘Proof of Islam’.

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