Category: New Books

Sharḥ: Commentary on O Beloved Son

Seen in book fairs and on sale is a published edition of a commentary on O Beloved Son (ayyahā al-walad…

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…

A Treasury of Ghazali: A Companion for the Untethered Soul

The good folks at Kube publishing have produced another wonderful book in their “Treasury” series. This new series highlights gems…

Translations into Bosnian

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Ar-Risāla al-laduniyya [Bosnian: Rasprava o transcendentnom znanju], translated by Almir Fatić, u: Novi Muallim, br. 19, Sarajevo,…

Ei farzand (or Ayyuha al-walad).

Alexey Khismatulin. Sochineniya Imama al-Ghazali (The Writings of Imam al-Ghazali). St. Petersburg-Moscow: Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie; Sadra, 2017. The book deals with the Persian writings…

Minhaj al-Qasidin

Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597/ ) summarized Ghazali’s ihya’ ‘ulum al-din in a book title Minhaj al-qasidin wa mufid al-sadiqin which…

The Philosophy of Islamic Civilization: al-Ghazali’s Perspective

Prof. Mashhad al-Allaf has a new book [ (فلسفة الحضارة الإسلامية (الرؤية الغزالية ] out on Islamic Civilization and culture in the…

Samples of Dar al-Minhaj’s edition of the Ihya’

In order to appreciate the work that went into this edition. I include here a few samples texts. The first…

New Translation

Prof. Massimo Campanini has published an annotated Italian translation of al-Ghazali’s Munqidh (Deliverance from Error) and Mishkat al-Anwar (Niche of Lights)….

Dar al-Minhaj sample text of the Ihya’

I have reported on the new edition of the ihya’. Now I have uploaded the first three chapters of book…