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Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence

al-Ghazali(Auth.) · Asaad F. Shaker (Trans.)
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The Book of Poverty and Abstinence is the thirty-fourth chapter of The Revival of the Religions Sciences. It falls in the section dealing with the virtues. Ghazali gives definitions of what real poverty and abstinence should be and how the poor should conduct themselves.

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Asaad F. Shaker
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The Book of Poverty and Abstinence is the thirty-fourth chapter of The Revival of the Religions Sciences. It falls in the section dealing with the virtues. Ghazali gives definitions of what real poverty and abstinence should be and how the poor should conduct themselves. He goes on to describe poverty that has no virtue and which is based on greed and love of the world. For Ghazali, the virtues of real poverty and abstinence are closely linked with patience, contentment, lack of worldliness, asceticism, trust and surrender to God.

A Selection from the Table of Contents

The Reality of Poverty and its Different States

The Excellence of Absolute Poverty

Poverty’s Excellence over Wealth

The Reality of Abstinence

The Excellence of Abstinence

The Degrees of Abstinence

The Signs of Abstinence

Appendix: Persons Cited in the Text

Index to Qur’anic Quotations

Bibliography

General Index
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About the author

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

Asaad F. Shaker: Dr. Asaad F. Shaker holds a Ph.D. from McGill University and specializes in classical Islam. He is the translator of Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence, published by the Islamic Texts Society.

Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN 9780946621767
Publisher Islamic Texts Society
Author al-Ghazali
Pages 146
Translator Asaad F. Shaker
Year Published 2014
Size W-6.6 in | H-9.6 in | D-0.8 in
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