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Al-Ghazali overview
This is to let you know of the translation into Arabic of Prof. Frank Griffel’s Stanford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s article…
Massimo Campanini (1954-2020)
Professor Massimo Campanini has passed away on the dawn of Friday, October 9, 2020, at his home in Lombardi, Milano…
Editions
New editions of old favorites: أيها الولد Ayyah al-walad. Dār al-minhāj, Jedda, 2014. Bidayat al-Hidiyya بداية الهداية Dār…
Wisdom of God’s creation
Wisdom of God’s creation (al-ḥikma fī makhaluqāt Allāh) This is a short treatise by Imām al-Ghazālī that is in fifteen…
Who moved Al-Ghazali’s Tomb?
Our dear friend Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal wrote the following a few months back: I was in Tus in October 2017…
The Concept of man in Islam in the writings of al-Ghazali by Ali Issa Othman
This book was published in 1960 by dar al-maʾārif Press of Cairo, I was just able to get a copy…
Ghazali manuscript: Mishakt al-Anwar
A curator at the The National Library of Israel, located in Jerusalem has been kind to inform me about one…
Iḥyāʾ – Dār al-Fayyḥāʾ/Dār al-Manhal edition
This is a wonderful edition of the Iḥyāʾ (Revival of the Religious Sciences) noteworthy for its care of the text. I…
Ihya in English
The background: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya (dki) of Beirut, Lebanon a publisher of trade Arabic books has also published their own…
Editions of the iḥyāʾ
I get this question quite often: is my edition of the iḥyāʾ a good edition? We need to be more…