{"product_id":"al-ghazzali-the-alchemy-of-happiness-9781596053694","title":"The Alchemy of Happiness","description":"Those who deny the reality of the ecstasies and other spiritual experiences of the Sufis merely betray their own narrow-mindedness and shallow insight. -from \"Concerning Music and Dancing\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOne 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAlso available from Cosimo Classics: Field's Shadows Cast Before and Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIranian theologian AL-GHAZALI (1058-1111) was medieval Islam's most prominent scholar and philosopher.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCLAUD FIELD is also author of Mystics and Saints of Islam, Heroes of Missionary Enterprise, and Persian Literature.","brand":"Cosimo Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53916745335126,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781596053694_1.jpg?v=1781884364","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/al-ghazzali-the-alchemy-of-happiness-9781596053694","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}