Mishkah al-Anwar
Subtitle: The Nice for Lights
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9789670526089
Description: This treatise gives an intimate glimpse of the inner life and esoteric thought of Imam al-Ghazali. It begins where his autobiographical Deliverance From Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal) leaves off. It basically expounds the celebrated Light verse (24:35) from the Qur’an and the subject of Veils from the hadith. These are further elaborated in three sections; one studying the various meanings of “Light”, the other on symbolic language in the Qur’an and Hadith and the final section concludes by applying the results of this symbology to the verse and hadith in question.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1 Light and lights: Preliminary studies; title: 2 The science of symbolism; title: 3 The application to the Light verse; title: Index