Al-Ghazali: Deliverance from Error and The Beginning of Guidance
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789839154641
Description: Deliverance from Error is the spiritual autobiography of Imam Ghazali, and The Beginning of Guidance, his other work included in this volume, complements his spiritual autobiography and sets out his ideal of how the religious man should order his life from hour to hour and day to day.
Table of contents: title: Short Biography of Imām al-Ghazālī; title: Notes on the Translation; title: Part One:; title: Deliverance from Error and Attachment to the Lord of Might and Majesty; title: I. Introduction; title: II. Preliminaries: Scepticism and the Denial of all Knowledge; title: III. The Classes of Seekers; title: IV. The True Nature of Prophecy and the Compelling Need of all Creation for it; title: V. The Reason for Teaching again after my Withdrawal from It; title: Part Two:; title: The Beginning of Guidance; title: I. Introduction; title: II. Acts of Obedience; title: III. The Avoidance of Sins; title: IV. Relationship between God and Man, and between Man and Man; title: Index