![]() This book Ihya is a sea of knowledge full of reasons and arguments, full of Quranic verses, traditions of the Holy Prophet, and of the companions and the famous saints of early ages.Įach subject was supported by the Quran, traditions, and sayings of the learned sages and wise men and established by reasons and arguments.Īs the great Imam belonged originally to the Shafeyi Sunni sect, some of the religious doctrines will be found in line with that sect, but nevertheless, its importance is very great. Through the unbounded grace of the Almighty God and blessings of the greatest Apostle of God, the English version of the Book of worship of the world-renowned Ihyaul Ulum (Revival of religious learning) of Imam Ghazzali, the greatest thinker of the world of Islam, the Proof of Islam, the famous Sufi and devout, has now been published in full. In it and such other works of his as Falihal-al-Ulutn, Tahafut of Falasifah, Iqtisad fi-al-Itiqad, orthodox speculation reached its culminating point. The mysticism of this work vitalized the law its orthodoxy leavened the doctrine of Islam. There he composed his masterpiece lyha Ulum-id-Din (the revivification of the sciences of religion). After about twelve years of retirement in various places, including two years of retreat in Syria and a holy pilgrimage, he returned to Baghdad to preach and teach. ![]() As a dervish, he roamed from place to place enjoying peace of soul and acquiescence of mind. Four years later he returned to Sufism after a terrific spiritual struggle that left him a physical wreck. In 1091 he was appointed lecturer at the Nizamiyah in Baghdad, where he became a skeptic. Starting his religious life as orthodox, Al-Ghazzali soon turned Sufi, and when still under twenty he had broken with all the past. He reproduced in his religious experience all the spiritual phases developed by Islam. Imam Abu-Hamid al-Ghazzali is unquestionably the greatest theologian of Islam and one of its noblest and most original thinkers. It deals with worship and divine service. The book is the English version of Imam Ghazzali’s Ihya Ulum-ud-Din. ![]() ![]() About the Book – AL-GHAZALI’S IHYA ULUM AD DIN ![]()
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