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This text marks a radical rethinking of the soul and the afterlife in the writings of al-Ghazali, particularly within his magnum opus, Reviving Religious Knowledge (Ihya''ulum al-din). Attending closely to variations of genre and discourse mode within his works, it attempts to resolve some of the major ambiguities that have vexed al-Ghazali's readers for nearly nine hundred years. Beginning with his theory of multi-level, multi-genre writing and working through his theological, philosophical, and mystical positions on the soul's true nature, the study culminates in an exploration of al-Ghazali's mystical psycho-cosmology , where some startling conclusions are drawn regarding his most intimate thoughts on the secrets of the soul and the Hereafter.

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...this study [...]contains excellent biographies of canonical writers, synopses of their works, and overviews of historial periods...the book represents a contribution to ecumenism by making little-studied Byzantine and Eastern canonical authors more comprehensible to a wider audience and inviting a proper assessment of their work. Patrick Viscuso, Speculum, 2004.

. ..this study [...]contains excellent biographies of canonical writers, synopses of their works, and overviews of historial periods...the book represents a contribution to ecumenism by making little-studied Byzantine and Eastern canonical authors more comprehensible to a wider audience and inviting a proper assessment of their work. Patrick Viscuso, Speculum , 2004.

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Timothy J. Gianotti, Ph.D. (1998) in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology, University of Toronto, is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Penn State University, where he teaches a variety of courses in Islamic Intellectual History, Mysticism, and Comparative Religion. His primary research interests involve classical Islamic understandings of psychology, epistemology, and eschatology.

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