Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufism His Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal) and Five Key Texts

by al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad; Burrell, CSC, David; McCarthy, R. J.; Graham, William A.

• ISBN13: 9781887752305
• ISBN10: 1887752307
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Fons Vitae

Summary

This text has long been recognized as not only an Islamic classic, but also as a great spiritual autobiography of one of the world's greatest religious thinkers. It is the narrative of how one dedicated seeker of true knowledge and salvation, having probed various systems of thought and differing paths of learning and enlightenment, discovered the peace of the inner life and discipline of mystical spirituality.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(15)
David Burrell
Introduction	15	(2)
William A. Graham
DELIVERENCE FROM ERROR	17	(64)
The Avenues to Sophistry and Skepticism	21	(3)
The Categories of Those Who Seek the Truth	24	(1)
The Aim and Purport of the Science of Kalam	25	(2)
Philosophy	27	(2)
The Categories of the Philosophers and the Fact That the Stigma of Unbelief Is Common to All of Them	29	(2)
The Divisions of the Philosophical Sciences	31	(11)
The Doctrine of Taclimism and Its Danger	42	(9)
Discussion of the Ways of the Sufis	51	(8)
The True Nature of Prophecy and the Need All Men Have for It	59	(5)
The Reason for Resuming Teaching after Having Given it Up	64	(17)
Doctors of Hearts	64	(2)
The Slackness of Faith	66	(3)
My Return to Teaching	69	(3)
Remedies for the Tepid	72	(9)
Notes to the Translation	81