Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufisim: His Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal) and Five Key Texts

An incredible, profound and eye-opening read about the inner spiritual journey of the phenomenon known as Imam Abu Hamid al Ghazali. This book touches beautifully - written by the great Imam himself - on the spiritual "crisis" he experienced which lead him to the Path of Tasawwuf (Sufism) and recognition of the heart's realities. In some ways, many youth of today can relate to this; a turning from "knowledge" to true knowledge and understanding of one's purpose, true identity and inward journey as a servant of God.

beautifully written .. hard to believe that this was written so many lifetimes ago .. but still very fresh and very relevant today .. a book to keep at your bedside and dip into , time after time

Great insight into traditional Islam and Spirituality.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is easy to read and understand. One of the best books i have bought. I would recommend it to others

Heard all about this book and thought I must purchase it! So glad I did, well worth the buy! Recommended book to anyone who is feeling a bit lost and needs some guidance along the way! This books makes you think and wonder a lot about general life issues we have in our lives daily! Fabulous author! Thanks a lot! :) ...

This edition is the most properly commented one among all those that I have read. The text itself by Ghazali is short, elliptic, and contains technical terms that can be either modernised with arguable results or have to be commented on. Ghazali's text is about his life story, though not a straightforward autobiography. It is a tour from science to science, what each science means, what it studies, what it "knows" and what it doesn't. Then after the tour among all sciences he arrives at that which transcends them. Here, the technical terms, the schools of thought and the sects that Ghazali is referring to have been commented on academically. With the intro, commentaries, and addenda, this edition will give you an idea about what the world was like back then, and provide clues to relate the contents with where we live now.

some great words from imam Ghazali are: "Knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity." "Does money upset the hearts of learned men? he answered "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned" imam Ghazali is one of the greatest scholars islam has ever seen. A master of theology, himself said that "I did not write a single word on theology until i memorised thousands of pages, of what the best theologans of islam have said about it". the imam found from his own experimentation that Sufism is the best way of life, sufis have the best personalities, and sufism is the easiest way to finding Almighty God. you can also purchase the excellent film made about imam ghazali from [...] i absolutely love this film, it is very modern, and very well funded and made.

What turned up was the same book, apparently, by a different publisher. I would have preferred that I was told this before it was dispatched.

Great read and full of information

Open your mind and heart, he was deep.

One of the best books ever written.

Al-Ghazzali's Munqid should be read by all Muslims and non-Muslims who want to make sense of existence. Though the title of the book (..path of Sufism) is bit misleading, and I believe the title Sufism sells and hence the name. The real title of the book is "Deliverance from the error", though the last chapter in the book is about Al-Ghazzalis approval of the ways of Sufis and the importance of their work on curing many spiritual illness of human soul. This book along with Alija Ali Itzbegovic's Islam between east and west and M. Iqbal's reconstruction of religious thoughts in Islam gives the foundational material for any student tackling the existential questions, atheism, scientism.....Personally as a student of philosophy these three books must be read in order for maximum benift ....

Amazing book, and nice translation (a little bit complex vocabulary, but it's mandatory to translate ancient books of wisdom)