Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God: Al-Maqsad al-Asna fi Sharh Asma' Allah al-Husna (The Islamic Texts Society's al-Ghazali Series) - Hardcover
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.
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...the series as a whole, [is] a significant contribution to our understanding of this key figure in Islamic intellectual thought.--Oliver Leaman "BRISMES Bulletin "
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This volume won a British Book Design and Production Award in 1993.
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- PublisherThe Islamic Texts Society
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0946621306
- ISBN 13 9780946621309
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages216
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