Category: Books

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…

Dar al-Minahaj’s Iḥyāʾ in pictures

See slide show for all the front cover of all the 10 volumes as well as the first seven pages…

Dar al-Minahaj’s Iḥyāʾ edition

In a previous post I mentioned that I would have more information and pictures of the edition. Dar al-Minhaj has…

New Translations and Studies from M. A. Quasem

Translation and Studies by: MUHAMMAD ABUL QUASEM, M.A., Ph.D.(EDIN), KAMIL(DAC), Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, National University of Malaysia. Professor of…