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The Alchemy of Happiness
By Al-Ghazzali
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Description
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.
Also available from Cosimo Classics: Field's Shadows Cast Before and Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages.
Iranian theologian AL-GHAZALI (1058-1111) was medieval Islam's most prominent scholar and philosopher.
CLAUD FIELD is also author of Mystics and Saints of Islam, Heroes of Missionary Enterprise, and Persian Literature.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
104
Release Date:
2005-11-01
Publication Date:
2005-11-01
Publisher:
Cosimo Classics
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1596053690
ISBN13:
9781596053694
Weight:
122 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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