Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity and Truthfulness
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Anthony F. Shaker
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About The Book
Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity and Truthfulness is a translation of the thirty-seventh chapter of The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din). Like Al-Ghazali on Patience and Thankfulness, this chapter falls in the last of the four sections of the Ihya’, the section dealing the virtues or what is conducive to salvation. Here Ghazali deals with the very important subject of intention, which is of crucial importance in Islam.
Ghazali asks: ‘How can someone ignorant of the meaning of intention verify his own intention; or how can someone ignorant of the meaning of sincerity verify his own sincerity; or how can someone sincerely claim truthfulness if he has not verified its meaning?’ Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity and Truthfulness includes an introduction that places the topic in the context of Islamic ethics.
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al-Ghazali: Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (450-505 AH / 1058-1111 CE) was born in Tus, in the Khorasan region of Persia, and is remembered as one of Islam's most influential thinkers. Losing his father young, he studied at Nishapur and was appointed, while still in his thirties, to the prestigious Nizamiyya college in Baghdad. He was Shafiʿi in law and Ashʿari in creed, and his contemporaries honored him as Hujjat al-Islam, the Proof of Islam. At the height of his fame al-Ghazali passed through a profound spiritual crisis, recounted in his autobiography al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (Deliverance from Error). He abandoned his teaching post, traveled, and devoted years to the inward discipline of the Sufis before returning to instruction with a renewed purpose. His landmark work, Ihyaʾ ʿUlum al-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), reconstructs the religious life across four parts, acts of worship, social custom, the vices that ruin the soul, and the virtues that save it. In philosophy he wrote Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers), a careful critique of the Hellenistic thinkers of his age. Bridging law, theology, philosophy, and mysticism, al-Ghazali shaped the direction of Sunni thought for centuries, and his books remain widely read and translated. His many works are available here in English translation.
About the translator
Anthony F. Shaker: Anthony F. Shaker holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from McGill University. He is the translator of two volumes from Imam al-Ghazali's Ihya 'Ulum al-Din for the Islamic Texts Society, covering the books on vigilance and self-examination and on intention, sincerity, and truthfulness. In addition to his translation work, he is the author of Thinking in the Language of Reality: Sadr al-Din Qunawi and the Philosophy of Reason, a scholarly study engaging the philosophical dimensions of the Islamic intellectual tradition. He writes on the philosophical and Sufi traditions of Islam as well as contemporary developments, and works as a professional consultant and researcher.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781903682791
Publisher
Islamic Texts Society
Author
al-Ghazali
Pages
164
Translator
Anthony F. Shaker
Year Published
2014
Size
W-6.2 in | H-9.5 in | D-0.5 in
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