Category: Books
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…
Iḥyāʾ printed editions – updates
on the Iḥyāʾ page on the website there has been extensive updates to the printed editions section. I am including…
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…
al-Ma’arif al-Aqiliya (Intellectual Knowledge)
The (Maʻārif al-ʻaqlīyah wa-lubāb al-ḥikmah al-īlāhīyah = Knowledge by intellect and the kernel of divine wisdom) is one of those minor works…
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…