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This spiritual autobiography describes Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's intellectual crisis, which led him to achieve direct knowledge of God. Among his most outstanding contributions to Muslim intellectual life were masterly defenses of Islamic orthodoxy, mysticism, and law, against the attacks of those who advocated purely legalistic, or entirely esoteric, readings of the religion. He hence articulated the Islam of the middle way, in balance between the extremes of the letter and the spirit. Also included in this volume are extensive translations from key works of al-Ghazali.McCarthy, Richard Joseph is the author of 'Deliverance from Error An Annotated Translation of Al-Munqidh Min Al Dalal and Other Relevant Works of Al-Ghazali', published 2004 under ISBN 9781887752275 and ISBN 1887752277.
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