Imam Al Ghazali (ra) is a classical Sufic thinker and author, and this text is a classical Sufic text. The first 30 pages or so are a fine introduction, giving a comprehensive context of Ghazali's time and life, the thinking of the time and important social, political, as well as religious events and circumstances--a very scholarly work with accompanying citations. What the beginning part is and how to acquire it, are described in al-Ghazali's book Bidayat al-Hidaya, translated into English with introduction, running commentary and notes by Prof. Dr. M.A. Quasem under the title Al-Ghazali on Islamic Guidance. In this book, guidance is identified with piety. This new fourth edition includes the invocations and supplications in Arabic for those readers who would like to use them in their prayers and a translation of Imam Ghazali’s own Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences, which gives the reasons that caused him to write the work, the structure of the whole of the Revival, and Imam Ghazali considered it a metaphysical pattern. Lastly, the Qur’an has essential objectives behind every word and figure, which are proving and proofing the truth of the revelation and prophecy. While changing the theories and ideas in the hermeneutics, the Quran especially earned a way of interpretation that is existing forevermore. This volume also includes a translation of Imam Ghazali's own Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences , which gives the reasons that caused him to write the work, the structure of the whole of the Revival and which places each of the chapters in the context of the others. WfgHIO2.

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