Confessions of al-Ghazali

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Authors: Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī In Year : 1909

Book Language: English

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Introduction
Gazzali's Search for Truth
The Subterfuges of the Sophists
The Different Kinds of Seekers after Truth
The Aim of Scholastic Theology and its Results
Concerning the Philosophical Sects and the Stigma of Infidelity Which Attaches to Them All
Divisions of the Philosophic Sciences
Sufism
The Reality of Inspiration : its Importance for the Human Race

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali was born in 1058 AD in the city of Tus in modern day Iran. He was a reputed scholar, philosopher and Shafi'i jurist who was a professor of theology at the Nizamiyya College of Baghdad. At the peak of his fame, he was gripped by an internal schism between his beliefs and his inner self. He gave up his position lead a life of seclusion and personal mystical transformation. During this time of solitude and contemplation he authored a number of seminal works reconciling the outward practices of Islam with a deep inner spirituality. The Confessions of al-Ghazali (Munkidh min al-Dalal, literally Deliverance from Error), is an intellectual autobiography on al-Ghazali's transformation. In this work he catalogs the various sects and schools of thought he encountered on his search for the divine truth. - Summary by Zishan Sheikh