Abū Ḥāmid Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Ţusî,  al-Ghazālī

(d. 555/1111).

Jurist, Mystic, Philosopher, Theologian...

 

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al-Ghazālī  = Abū Ḥāmid Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Ţusî,  al-Ghazālī ( d. 555 /1111).

  • Kitāb al-Arba'în fî usûl al-Dîn. Qāla fî Kashf al-Zunûn wa-huwa qism min kitābuhu al-musammā bi-Jawāhir al-Qur'ān ... Cairo 1328/1910. (368pp.).
  • Kitab al-Arba`in fi usul al-din. Beirut: Dar al-Jil, 1408/1988.

ADD ("The Incoherence of the Philosophers")*

  • Tahāfut al-Falāsifa, ed. Maurice Bouyges, Beirut, 1927.
  • Tahāfut al-Falāsifa.  ed. Dr. Sulayman Dunyā, 3rd printing Cairo: Dar al-Ma`ārif, 1958 (369pp.).*
  • al-Ghazali The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Translated by Michael E. Marmura. 2nd Edition. Distributed for Brigham Young University. 580 p. 1997+2000 ( (Islamic Translation Series). * Includes the sometimes adapted Maurice Bouyges, Beirut, 1927 text.

 

Mishkat al-anwar ("The Niche of Lights")*

  • Mishkāt al-anwār (The Niche of the Lights), ed. A. Afifi, Cairo, 1964. *
  • trans. WH.T Gairdner, Al-Ghazzali's Mishkat al-Anwar, London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1924; repr. Lahore: Shaykh Muhammad Ashraf, 1952. *
  • Mishkāt al-anwār. trans. D. Buchman (The Niche of Lights) Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.
  • R. Deladriere, Le Tabernacle des lumieres, Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1981;
  • A.-E. Elschazli, Die Nische der Lichter, Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1987.
  • al-Ghazali The Niche of Lights. Translated by David Buchman. Distributed for Brigham Young University. 300 pp. 1998  ( Islamic Translation Series). *

 

al-Munqidh min al-ḍalal ("The Deliverance from Error")*

  • al-Munqidh min al-dalal.  ed. J. Salībā and K. `Iyyād, Damascus: Maktab al-Nashr al-‘Arabi, 1934. *
  • + ed. Beirut: Dar al-Andalus, n.d.
  • Trans. W M. Watt, The Faith and Practice of al-Ghazali, London: Allen & Unwin, 1953; *
  • Trans. R.J. McCarthy, Freedom and Fulfillment: An Annotated Translation of al-Ghazali’s al-Munqidh min al-Dalal and Other Relevant Works of al-Ghazali, Boston, MA: Twayne, 1980.
  • Freedom and Fulfillment: An Annotated Translation of Al-Ghazalï's al-Munqidh min al-Dalāl and Other Relevant Works of al-Ghazālī. Trans. Richard Joseph McCarthy. Library of Classical Arabic Literature 4. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980.
  • URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1100ghazali-truth.html

al-Qisṭās al-Mustaqīm ("The... ).

  • al-Qisṭās al-Mustaqīm.  ed. M. M. Abu al-A`la in al-Quṣur al-awali. Cairo: Maktab`at al-Jundī n.d.

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Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-dīn (The Revival of Religious Sciences).*

  • Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-dīn , Cairo, 1312/1894.
  • Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-dīn . Cairo: Lajnat Nashr al-Thaqāfiyya  al-Islamiyya, Cairo, 1356/1937.
  • Iḥya' 'ulūm al-dīn. 5 vols (1+4). Beirut: Dār al-Ma`rifa,  1402/1982. *
  • Iḥya' 'ulūm al-dīn. 5 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyya,  ADD/ADD. Vol. 5 includes Commentory in the form of al-Mughni 'an Haml al-asfar fi takhrikh al-Ihya)..
  • Iḥya' 'ulūm al-dīn. 5 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Arqam,  200?/ADD.
  • Iḥya' 'ulūm al-dīn. 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Ma`rifa,  200?/ADD. Includes the Kitab Awarif al-Marif by al-Suhrawardi.
    Iḥya' 'ulūm al-dīn. 5 vols. ed. Muhammad Sulayman, Osamah Amurah. Beirut: Dar al-Fikr al-Mu'asir:    5 vols. set
  • Iḥyā' 'ulūm al-dīn- Bk of Fasting: http://www.ghazali.org/works/fasting.rtf

Mustaṣfā min `ilm al-uṣūl ("Choice Matters among the Science of Basic Principles")

A Legal work

  • Mustaṣfā min `ilm al-uṣūl + Kitab al-Fawatih al-Rahmut bi-Sharh al-Muslim al-Thabut by Muhammad ibn Nizam al-Din al-Ansari 2 vols. Dar Ṣādir  n.d. rep. [Cairo] : Matba`at al-Amiriyya, 1322-4/1904-6. *
  • al-Mustafa min ‘ilm al-usul, Cairo: [al-Matba'ah al-Amiriyyah], Cairo, 1356/ 1937.
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al-Iqtiṣād fi'l-I`tiqād ("On Divine Predicates and their Properties). *

  • al-li-Iqtisād fî 'l-i'tiqād.  Cairo: Muṣṭafā al-Bāī al-Ḥalabī, n.d.
  • al-li-Iqtisād fî 'l-i'tiqād.  Cairo: XXXX., 1382/1962 (132 pp.).
  • al-Iqtiṣād fi'l-I`tiqād. eds.  Hussayn Attay & Ibrahim Cububcu. Ankara: Ankara Universitesi Ilahiyyat Fakultesi Yayinlari, 1962.

Abd al-Rahman Abu Zayd.

  • Al-Ghazali on the Divine Predicates and their Properties.  Trans. of three chapters. of al-Iqtisad...

 

al-Maqṣad al-Asnā, fi Sharḥ ma`ānī asmā' Allāh al-ḥusnā ("The Commentary upon the Ninety-Nine Most Beautiful Names of God").

  • al-Maqṣad al-Asnā, fi Sharḥ ma`ānī asmā' Allāh al-ḥusnā. Cairo: Taqaddum Press, 1322/1904.

  • al-Maqṣad al-Asnā, fi Sharḥ asmā' Allāh al-ḥusnā. ed + introd. Fadlou Shehadi, Beirut: Dar el-Machreq, 1983 (liv+208 pp.)

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  • al-Ghazalī on the Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God, trans. David B. Burrell and Nazih Daher,  Islamic Text Society , 1993 / 0946621314

  • al-Ghazali on the Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God: al-Maqsad, al-Asna, Fi Sharh Asma', Allah al-Husna. Nakamura Hardcover / Islamic Text Society / March 1993

al-Miḥakk al-Naẓar

  • al-Mihakk al-Nazar, ed. R. al-`Ajam. Beirut: Dar al-Fikr al-Lubnani, 1994.
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Faḍā'iḥ al-Bāṭiniyya

  • Faḍā'iḥ al-Bāṭiniyya. ed. A. Badawi. Cairo: Dar al-Qawmiyya li'l-Tiba`a wa'l-Nashr. 1383/1964.

 

Fayṣal al-Tafriqa bayna al-Islam wa'l-Zandaqa ("The Decisive Criterion for Disti Islam from Masked Infedility").

  • Fayṣal al-Tafriqa bayna al-Islam wa'l-Zandaqa. ed. Sulayman Dunya. Cairo: Dar Ihya al-Kutub al-`Arabiyya, 1961.

Jackson, Sherman A. (trans.)

  • On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Fayṣal al-Tafriqa bayna al-Islam wa'l-Zandaqa. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002_07. (156pp.).

 

OTHER WRITINGS

  • al-Awfāq. Singapore c. 1970. Large 8vo. (56 pp). On numerological tables.
  • Mukāshifat al-qulûb al-muqarrib ilā hadrat 'allām al-ghuyûb, fî 'ilm al-tasawwuf. • [Cairo] c. 1970. 272 pp.

 

 

SECONDARY SOURCES

 

 

Farouk Mitha,

  • AL-GHAZALI AND THE ISMAILIS,  A Debate on Reason and Authority in Medieval Islam  I. B. Tauris,  2002 160 pp.

Campanini, M.

  • ‘Al-Ghazzali’, in S.H. Nasr and O. Leaman (eds) History of Islamic Philosophy, London: Routledge, 1996. ch. 19, 258-74.*

Kojiro  Nakamura

  • Imam Ghazali's Cosmology Reconsidered with Special Reference to the Concept of "Jabarut" Studia Islamica, No. 80 (1994), pp. 29-46
     

Lazarus-Yafeh, H. 

  • Studies in al-Ghazali, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press. 1975.*

Leaman, O.

  • An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1985)
  • ‘Ghazali and the Ash‘arites’, Asian Philosophy 6 (1) (1996) : 17-27.

Macdonald, D.B.

  •  ‘The Life of al-Ghazzali, with Especial Reference to His Religious Experiences and Opinions’, Journal of the American Oriental Society 20(1899) : 71-132.

Marmura, M. E. 

  • ‘Ghazalian Causes and Intermediaries’, Journal of the American Oriental Society 11(1995)5 : 89-100.

Oberman, J.

  • Der philosophische und religiose Subjektivismus Ghazalis. Vienna, 1921

Shehadi, F

  • Ghazali's Unique Unknowable God: A Philosophical Critical Analysis of Some of the Problems Raised by Ghazali's View of God as Utterly Unique and Unknowable, Leiden: Brill. (1964)*

Sherif, M.

  • Ghazali's Theory of Virtue, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.  1975.

Smith, M.

  • Al-Ghazali the Mystic, London: Luzac. 1944.*

Watt, W.  Montgomery 

  • The Faith and Practice of al-Ghazālī [al-Munqidh min al-Dalāl]. Ed. W. Montgomery Watt. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1953.
  • Muslim Intellectual: A Study of al-Ghazali, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 1963. *