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Deliverance from Error: Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal - Softcover

Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad

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9781887752275: Deliverance from Error: Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal
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ISBN 10: 1887752277 ISBN 13: 9781887752275
Publisher: Fons Vitae, 2004

Synopsis

This spiritual autobiography describes Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's intellectual crisis, which led him to achieve direct knowledge of God. Among his most outstanding contributions to Muslim intellectual life were masterly defenses of Islamic orthodoxy, mysticism, and law, against the attacks of those who advocated purely legalistic, or entirely esoteric, readings of the religion. He hence articulated the Islam of the middle way, in balance between the extremes of the letter and the spirit. Also included in this volume are extensive translations from key works of al-Ghazali.

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About the Author

Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali is generally acclaimed as the most influential thinker of medieval Islam, whose 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.

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Publisher
Fons Vitae
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1887752277
ISBN 13 
9781887752275
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
334
Editor
Lichtenstadter Ilse
Rating
  • 4.54 out of 5 stars
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