The Confessions of Al Ghazzali
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali · tr. Claud Field · 1909 · 13,357 words
Al-Ghazali’s spiritual autobiography (al-Munqidh): his crisis of doubt, his search among the theologians, philosophers and Batinites, and how he found certainty on the path of the Sufis.
Opening
Editorial Note
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Contents
- Editorial Note
- Introduction Birth of Ghazzali
- The Confessions of Al Ghazzali · Ghazzali’s Search for Truth
- The Subterfuges of the Sophists
- The Different Kinds of Seekers after Truth
- The Aim of Scholastic Theology and its Results
- Concerning the Philosophical Sects and the Stigma of Infidelity which attaches to them all
- Divisions of the Philosophic Sciences
- Sufism
- The Reality of Inspiration: Its Importance for the Human Race