Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God

by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (Author),

David Burrell (Translator), Nazih Daher (Translator)

Pages: 198

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Hujjatul Islam Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad Al Ghazali is undoubtedly an original thinker, great Sufi, and theologian of Islam. Soon after completing education he was appointed Head of Nizamiyah Madrassah by Prime Minister of Malek Shah as a recognition to his abilities. Soon his popularity spread far and wide as a scholar. Imam lived for 55 years and wrote nearly 400 books on various subjects ranging from theology, jurisprudence, logic, philosophy, and spiritualism.

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, 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. 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.