Al-Ghazali's Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Notes to Introduction
Prologue
Chapter One: An Exposition of the Proof-Texts from Revelation Concerning Man's Love for God
Chapter Two: An Exposition of the True Nature and Causes of Love, with an Explanation of the Meaning of Human Love for God
Chapter Three: An Exposition that God Alone Merits Love
Chapter Four: An Exposition that the Noblest and Loftiest Pleasure is Knowledge of God and Contemplation of His Blessed Face and Only He Who Is Denied this Pleasure can Conceivably Prefer Another To It
Chapter Five: An Exposition of Why the Beatific Vision in the World to Come Surpasses Knowledge in this World
Chapter Six: An Exposition of the Factors that Strengthen Love of God
Chapter Seven: An Exposition of Why there are Disparities among People with Respect to Love
Chapter Eight: An Exposition of Why the Human Understanding is Unable to Know God
Chapter Nine: An Exposition of What Longing for God Means
Chapter Ten: An Exposition of the Meaning of God's Love for Man
Chapter Eleven: The Distinguishing Marks of Man's Love for God.
Chapter Twelve: An Exposition of the Meaning of Intimacy with God
Chapter Thirteen: An Exposition of the Meaning of the Uninhibitedness and Forwardness which Overmastering Intimacy Produces
Prologue: The Meaning of Contentment with God's Decree: Its True Nature and What Tradition Reports of Its Merit
Chapter Fourteen: An Exposition of the Merit of Contentment
Chapter Fifteen: An Exposition of the Essence of Contentment (and How It Can be Conceived as a Check to Appetite)
Chapter Sixteen: An Exposition that Supplication is not in Conflict with Contentment
Chapter Seventeen: An Exposition that Fleeing and Censuring a Country Reputed Sinful Is not Contrary to Contentment
Chapter Eighteen: A Compilation of Anecdotes about Lovers, Together with their Sayings and Innermost Illuminations
Chapter Nineteen: Conclusion: Various useful Sayings Regarding Love
Notes
Appendix: Persons Cited in Text
Bibliography
Index to Qur'anic Quotations
General Index
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111), theologian, logician, jurist and mystic, was born and died in Tus in Central Asia, but spent much of his life lecturing at Baghdad or leading the life of a wandering dervish. His most celebrated work, Revival of the Religious Sciences, has exercised a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history.
Prof. Eric Ormsby was Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. He is at present Professor at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
…the series as a whole, [is] a significant contribution to our
understanding of this key figure in Islamic intellectual
thought.
*BRISMES Bulletin*
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