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Al-Ghazālī on the lawful & the unlawful : Kitāb al-ḥalāl wa'l-ḥarām : book XIV of The revival of the religious sciences : Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn / translated with an introduction & notes by Yusuf T. Delorenzo.
Van Pelt Library BP184.4 .G4313 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111, author.
- Series:
- Ghazālī series
- Al-Ghazālī series
- Standardized Title:
- Ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. Ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām.
- Ghazzālī.
- Religious life--Islam--Early works to 1800.
- Religious life.
- Religious life--Islam.
- Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800.
- Islam.
- Islam--Customs and practices.
- Islamic law--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic law.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- xlix, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition with Al-Ghāzāli's Introduction to The revival of the religious sciences.
- Other Title:
- Lawful and the unlawful
- Kitāb al-ḥalāl wa'l-ḥarām
- Al-Ghazālī on the lawful and the unlawful
- Place of Publication:
- Great Shelford, Cambridge : The Islamic Texts Society, [2017]
- Summary:
- "The Book of the Lawful & the Unlawful is the 14th chapter of The Revival of the Religious Sciences, which is widely considered as the greatest work of Islamic spirituality. Written by one of the most famous theologian-mystics of all time, The Book of the Lawful & the Unlawful is unlike other Islamic works concerned with legal issues. Here, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī aims to teach his readers firstly the theory of what is lawful and what is unlawful and how to deal with dubious or ambiguous issues, and secondly how to apply the knowledge they have gained to their everyday lives. The main support for this application, especially in matters that are unclear, is caution or prudence (waraʻ), and Ghazālī explains the degrees of prudence necessary, beginning with the prudence of the upright and ending with the prudence of the saintly. Thus the sincere practice of what is lawful and desisting from what is unlawful become integrated into one's spiritual life."-- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and index.
- Translated from the Arabic.
- Previous edition of this translation: 2014.
- ISBN:
- 9781911141365
- 1911141368
- OCLC:
- 1064590231
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