[PDF] Al Ghazali And The Ismailis eBook

Author : Farouk Mitha
Publisher : I.B.Tauris
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2001-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781860648199

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Al-Ghazali is arguably one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam, and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in the West than those of any other Muslim scholar. This study explores an important dimension of his thought that has not yet been fully examined, namely, his polemical engagement with the Ismailis of the Fatimid and early Alamut periods. Published in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Author : Farouk Mitha
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Ismailites
ISBN : 9780755611782

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"Al-Ghazali is arguably one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam, and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in the West than those of any other Muslim scholar. This study explores an important dimension of his thought that has not yet been fully examined, namely, his polemical engagement with the Ismailis of the Fatimid and early Alamut periods."--Publisher description.

Author : Mohamed Abu Bakr a. Al-Musleh
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9675062827

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Numerous studies have been done on Imam al-Ghzali (1058-1111) in almost all major languages. So much is the academic attention given to him, and deservedly so, that it is difficult to find any element of originality in a new study on him. Various aspects of his life and thought have yet to be adequately studied, one of them being his role in islah (Islamic reform). It is also true that the study of islah as a separate topic is somewhat new, and available literature on the subject is limited within the views and the achievements of a number of distinguished scholars in the modern times. This work attempts to discover part of the rich legacy of the reformers by introducing a pre-modern scholar as Imam al-Ghazali.

Author : W. Montgomery Watt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0861540433

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Al-Ghazali was one of the great Muslim theologians. In this book the author provides a translation of some of his works, including his spiritual autobiography. Al-Ghazali's description of his own emergence from scepticism anticipates the philosophical method of systematic doubt employed by Descartes. Another work translated here sets out Al-Ghazali's ideal of how a religious person should order his life from hour to hour and day to day.

Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : 0415966906

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Examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th century. This two-volume work contains 700 alphabetically arranged entries, and provides a portrait of Islamic civilization. It is of use in understanding the roots of Islamic society as well to explore the culture of medieval civilization.

Author : Eric Ormsby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1780742053

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This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period. Attracting the patronage of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk early in his career, he was appointed head of the Nizamiyyah College at Baghdad, and attracted audiences from across the Islamic world, who sought his teachings on Islamic philosophy and jurisprudence. Eventually renouncing his position due to a spiritual crisis, he went into self-imposed exile, during which he wrote the Sufi masterpiece, "Revival of the Sciences of Religion". Concise and lucid, this is a perfect introduction to the great man's life and work.

Author : Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1108419097

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Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

Author : Paul E. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521441292

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The first book-length study of a leading tenth-century Ismaili theoretician Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani.

Author : James W. Morris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0755602625

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This volume includes a fully annotated translation and Arabic critical edition of one of the earliest surviving Ismaili Shi'i writings, by the Yemeni author Ja'far Ibn Mansur al-Yaman. In addition to being a key source for pre-Fatimid Ismaili history, "The Master and the Disciple" is important as the most elaborate example of the narrated dramatic dialogue form in Arabic literature. The work also illustrates the processes by which early esoteric Shi'i ideas and institutions eventually contributed to the evolution of more familiar forms of Sufism in the Islamic West.