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The Alchemy of Happiness (Hardcover)
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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. They 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.ABU HAMED MUHAMMAD IBN
MUHAMMAD AL-GHAZZALI (1058-1111)was a Persian Islamic philosopher,
theologian, psychologist, and mystic, known today as one of the
most famous Sunni scholars in history, sometimes cited as
next-in-importance only to Muhammad. Born in Tus, Al-Ghazzali was a
pioneer of methodic doubt; his work The Incoherence of Philosophers
shifted early Islamic philosophy from metaphysics to the theory of
occasionalism, an Islamic doctrine that states cause-and-effect is
controlled by God. He also succeeded in bringing orthodox Islam in
contact with Sufism. The author of more than 70 books on various
subjects, his influence continues to stretch far and wide even
today.
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