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Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires - Books XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires - Books XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: The Islamic Texts Society's al-Ghazali Series
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"Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul" is a translation of the
twenty-third book of the "Revival of the Religious Sciences" (Ihya
Ulum al-Din), which is widely regarded as the greatest work of
Muslim spirituality. In "Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul", Abu
Hamid al-Ghazali illustrates how the spiritual life in Islam begins
with `riyadat al-nafs', the inner warfare against the ego. The two
chapters translated here detail the sophisticated spiritual
techniques adopted by classical Islam in disciplining the soul. In
Chapter One, "Disciplining the Soul", Ghazali focuses on how the
sickness of the heart may be cured and how good character traits
can be acquired. In Chapter Two, "Breaking the Two Desires", he
discusses the question of gluttony and sexual desire-being the
greatest of mortal vices-concluding, in the words of the Prophet,
that "the best of all matters is the middle way". The translator,
T. J. Winter, has added an introduction and notes which explore
Ghazali's ability to make use of Greek as well as Islamic
ethics.---In this new edition, the Islamic Texts Society has
included the translation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's own Introduction
to the "Revival of the Religious Sciences" which gives the reasons
that caused him to write the work, the structure of the whole of
the "Revival" and places each of the chapters in the context of the
others.
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