Al-Ghazali's Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Notes to Introduction
Prologue
Part I: On Patience
Chapter One: An Exposition of the Merit of Patience
Chapter Two: An Exposition of the Nature and Meaning of Patience
Chapter Three: An Exposition of How Patience is Half of Faith
Chapter Four: An Exposition of the Terms Used for Patience in Addition to the Term Patience Itself
Chapter Five: An Exposition of the Divisions of Patience According to Variations of Strength and Weakness
Chapter Six: An Exposition of the Assumed Need for Patience and that the Servant Cannot Dispense with it Under any Condition
Chapter Seven: An Exposition of Patience as a Remedy and What is Gained by Resorting to It
Part II: On Thankfulness
Section One: On the Essence of Thankfulness
Chapter Eight: An Exposition of the Merit of Thankfulness
Chapter Nine: An Exposition of the Definition and Nature of Thankfulness
Chapter Ten: An Exposition of How to Raise the Veil on the Thankfulness Due to God
Chapter Eleven: An Exposition of the Distinction Between What God Loves and What He Hates
Section Two: The Applications of Thankfulness
Chapter Twelve: An Exposition of the Nature of the Blessings and Their Divisions
Chapter Thirteen: An Exposition of Examples of God's Abundant Blessings, their Inter-connectedness and that they can Neither be Limited nor Counted
Chapter Fourteen: An Exposition of the Causes which Turn People Away from Thankfulness
Section Three: On What Patience and Thankfulness Share and What Links One with the Other
Chapter Fifteen: An Exposition of that which Unites Patience and Thankfulness
Chapter Sixteen: An Exposition of the Merit of Blessing over Tribulation
Chapter Seventeen: Exposition of Which is Better: Patience or Thankfulness?
Notes
Appendix: Persons Cited in Text
Bibliography
Index to Qur'anic Quotations
General Index
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111), theologian, logician, jurist and mystic, was born and died in Tus in Central Asia, but spent much of his life lecturing at Baghdad or leading the life of a wandering dervish. His most celebrated work, Revival of the Religious Sciences, has exercised a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history by exploring the mystical significance of the practices and beliefs of Islamic orthodoxy, earning him the title of Hujjat al Islam, the ‘Proof of Islam’.
…the series as a whole, [is] a significant contribution to our
understanding of this key figure in Islamic intellectual
thought.
*BRISMES Bulletin*
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