Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-Nine (99) Beautiful Names of God (Shaykh Abu Hamid al Ghazali)

ISBN: 0946621314
Author: Imam al-Ghazali/David B. Burrell & Nazih Daher
Publisher: Islamic Texts Society (UK)
Pages: 224 Binding: Paperback

Description from the publisher:

In this work, here presented in a complete English translation 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, the author 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. Imam al-Ghazali never fails to attract the reader with his profound mystical and ethical insights, which, conveyed in his sincere and straightforward idiom, have made this book one of the perennial classics of Muslim thought, popular among Muslims to this day.