Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Notes by M. Abdurrahman Fitzgerald. In the Mysteries of the Pilgrimage (Kitāb asrār al-ḥajj), book 7 of the forty books of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn), Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī discusses the fundamentals of the pilgrimage, including its pillars, preconditions, and obligations.
This volume also includes a translation of Imam Ghazali's own Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences, which gives the reasons that caused him to write the work, the structure of the whole of the Revival and which places each of the chapters in the context of the others. The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife 1995 AL-GHAZALI’s[Introduction by the modern fan of al-Ghazali who put it on the net] The following is a section from the above book, the book is an remarkable piece of work on eschatology by probably the greatest scholar of Islam, Imam Hujjat al-Islam (The Proof of Islam) Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111).
Partial English Translation from A Hebrew translation: THE LOGICAL PART OF AL-GHAZALI'S MAQASID AL-FALASIFA, IN AN ANONYMOUS HEBREW TRANSLATION WITH THE HEBREW COMMENTARY OF MOSES OF NARBONNE, EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. CHERTOFF, GERSHON BARUCH, PHD. Introduction: Al-Ghazzali has divided the dogmatic knowledge into two categories, desirable and undesirable. The former are again divided into basic, subsidiary, introductory and supplementary. Here the basic knowledge comprises of Holy Qur'an, Hadith (Prophetic Traditions), Ijma' (Consensus of Muslim scholars opinion) andHere is a short excerpt from the introduction by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in the Book of Knowledge: What the scholars meant when they called Imam al-Ghazali the “Proof of Islam” was simply that he had tested the practices in Islam and proved for himself that they were true.v. t. e. Six Sufi masters, c. 1760. Sufism ( Arabic: الصُّوفِيَّة aṣ-ṣūfiyya ), also known as Tasawwuf [1] ( التَّصَوُّف at-taṣawwuf ), is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, asceticism, and esotericism. QcZf.