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Author:   Abu Hamid al-Ghazali ,  Eric Ormsby
Publisher:   The Islamic Texts Society
Imprint:   The Islamic Texts Society
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781903682265

ISBN 10:   1903682266
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionNotes to IntroductionPrologueChapter One: An Exposition of the Proof-Texts from Revelation Concerning Man's Love for GodChapter Two: An Exposition of the True Nature and Causes of Love, with an Explanation of the Meaning of Human Love for GodChapter Three: An Exposition that God Alone Merits LoveChapter Four: An Exposition that the Noblest and Loftiest Pleasure is Knowledge of God and Contemplation of His Blessed Face and Only He Who Is Denied this Pleasure can Conceivably Prefer Another To ItChapter Five: An Exposition of Why the Beatific Vision in the World to Come Surpasses Knowledge in this WorldChapter Six: An Exposition of the Factors that Strengthen Love of GodChapter Seven: An Exposition of Why there are Disparities among People with Respect to LoveChapter Eight: An Exposition of Why the Human Understanding is Unable to Know GodChapter Nine: An Exposition of What Longing for God MeansChapter Ten: An Exposition of the Meaning of God's Love for ManChapter Eleven: The Distinguishing Marks of Man's Love for God.Chapter Twelve: An Exposition of the Meaning of Intimacy with GodChapter Thirteen: An Exposition of the Meaning of the Uninhibitedness and Forwardness which Overmastering Intimacy ProducesPrologue: The Meaning of Contentment with God's Decree: Its True Nature and What Tradition Reports of Its MeritChapter Fourteen: An Exposition of the Merit of ContentmentChapter Fifteen: An Exposition of the Essence of Contentment (and How It Can be Conceived as a Check to Appetite)Chapter Sixteen: An Exposition that Supplication is not in Conflict with ContentmentChapter Seventeen: An Exposition that Fleeing and Censuring a Country Reputed Sinful Is not Contrary to ContentmentChapter Eighteen: A Compilation of Anecdotes about Lovers, Together with their Sayings and Innermost IlluminationsChapter Nineteen: Conclusion: Various useful Sayings Regarding LoveNotesAppendix: Persons Cited in TextBibliographyIndex to Qur'anic QuotationsGeneral 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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