Description
Product ID: | 9780946621316 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | The Islamic Texts Society's al-Ghazali Series |
Title: | Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God |
Subtitle: | Al-Maqsad al-Asna fi Sharh Asma' Allah al-Husna |
Authors: | Author: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Nazih Daher, David Burrell |
Page Count: | 216 |
Subjects: | Islam, Islam, Theology, Theology |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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, Ghazali 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. This volume won a British Book Design and Production Award in 1993. |
Imprint Name: | The Islamic Texts Society |
Publisher Name: | The Islamic Texts Society |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1992-01-01 |