$48.49
Author: Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
Brand: Islamic Texts Society
Number Of Pages: 216
Details: Review
…the series as a whole, [is] a significant contribution to our understanding of this key figure in Islamic intellectual thought.–Oliver Leaman “BRISMES Bulletin”
Product Description
In this work, here presented in a complete English edition for the first time, the problem of knowing God is confronted in an original and stimulating way. Taking up the Prophet’s teaching that ‘Ninety-nine Beautiful Names’ are truly predicated of God, the author explores the meaning and resonance of each of these divine names, and reveals the functions they perform both in the cosmos and in the soul of the spiritual adept. Although some of the book is rigorously analytical, the author never fails to attract the reader with his profound mystical and ethical insights, which, conveyed in his sincere and straightforward idiom, have made of this book one of the perennial classics of Muslim thought, popular among Muslims to this day.
About the Author
David Burrell is a Theodore M. Hesburgh professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Notre Dame. Nazih Daher is a chairman of the department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign Service Institute of the United States Department of State.
Release Date: 01-12-1999
Package Dimensions: 16x232x322
