The Alchemy of Happiness - Softcover

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

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ISBN 10: 1906621381 ISBN 13: 9781906621384

Publisher: The Lost Library, 2016

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Written by one of the most important of all Islamic theologians, Al-Ghazali (c.1058-1111), whose work influenced medieval Christian philosophers as well as reconciling the orthodox and Sufi schools of Islamic thought, The Alchemy of Happiness (Kimiya-i-Sa'adaat) offers a rare combination of 'ecstatic assurance and scepticism' in its guide to self-knowledge and the road to salvation. Translated from the original Persian.

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Gazzali's own abridgement, in Persian, of his masterwork ‘The Revival of Religious Sciences’. This excellent English version is designed for the ordinary reader.

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One of the great works of mystical religious literature, the Kimiya-i-Sa'adaat strove to bring man closer to understanding God by helping him understand himself. These excerpts from that work, by a strikingly original thinker on Islam who lived and wrote in the 11th century, were first published in 1910, and serve as a potent reminder of how powerful an influence Al-Ghazzali had upon religious philosophers of the Middle Ages, both Christian and Islamic. With its wise and warmly humanistic outlook, this little book may well foster a new measure of understanding in the current philosophical battle between the religious traditions of East and West.

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