Al-Ghazali's Forty Principles of the Religion (Al- Arba'in Fi Usul ad-Din)
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Nasir Abdussalam
Description
The Forty Principles of the Religion is a comprehensive distillation of Imam al-Ghazali's magnum opus, Ihya Ulum ad-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), in which he explores the spiritual depth of virtually every aspect of Islam.
This condensed work presents Imam al-Ghazali's profound insights regarding man's lifelong struggle to draw closer to Allah in a simple framework, providing the reader with a step-by-step tried and proven method for spiritual development.
The result is an essential guide to improving one's relationship with both the Creator and the creation and a perfect introduction to Imam al-Ghazali's other great works.
Forty Principle in Four Parts
Part 1
The Sum of Knowledge and It's Principles,
Part Two
Outer Actions,
Part Three
Purifying the Heart from Blameworthy Actions,
Part Four
Praiseworthy Character Traits,
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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
Nasir Abdussalam: Nasir Abdussalam hafidhahullah is an American Muslim scholar, imam, and translator. Born in Chesterfield, Missouri, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he embraced Islam in 2003 while enrolled at Georgia State University, where he was majoring in English with a concentration in rhetoric and composition. Drawn to traditional scholarship, he subsequently spent more than a decade in Jordan pursuing intensive Islamic education. He earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic law and legal theory from the World Islamic Sciences and Education University, while simultaneously engaging in traditional studies of theology (aqida), hadith, Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir), and Shafi'i jurisprudence. Upon returning to the United States, he took up the role of imam at the Islamic Association of West Virginia and founded Saladin Islamic Seminary. He has also taught privately and for Islamic American University. His translation output focuses on foundational theological and hadith sciences texts: he has translated Imam al-Ghazali's The Forty Principles of the Religion and The Foundations of Belief, The Creed of Imam Bayhaqi, Qatf al-Azhar (a collection of mass-transmitted reports), and Ibn Kathir's Ikhtisar 'Ulum al-Hadith, all published by Turath Publishing.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781906949129
Publisher
Turath Publishing
Author
al-Ghazali
Pages
335
Translator
Nasir Abdussalam
Year Published
2016
Size
W- | H- | D-
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