The Alchemy of Happiness - Softcover

Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557427143 ISBN 13: 9781557427144

Publisher: WLC, 2009

Synopsis

God has sent on earth prophets to teach men the prescription of happiness. This alchemy may be briefly described as turning away from the world to God, and its constituents are the knowledge of self., the knowledge of God, the knowledge of this world as it really is, and the knowledge of the next world as it really is.

About this title

From the Publisher

Gazzali's own abridgement, in Persian, of his masterwork ‘The Revival of Religious Sciences’. This excellent English version is designed for the ordinary reader.

From the Back Cover

One of the great works of mystical religious literature, the Kimiya-i-Sa'adaat strove to bring man closer to understanding God by helping him understand himself. These excerpts from that work, by a strikingly original thinker on Islam who lived and wrote in the 11th century, were first published in 1910, and serve as a potent reminder of how powerful an influence Al-Ghazzali had upon religious philosophers of the Middle Ages, both Christian and Islamic. With its wise and warmly humanistic outlook, this little book may well foster a new measure of understanding in the current philosophical battle between the religious traditions of East and West.

Edition details

• Publisher: WLC
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557427143
• ISBN 13: 9781557427144
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76