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The Arabic and Greek phrases used in the header above, on the conference poster, and on the conference program includes text from al-Ghazali's autobiography, his work Mishkat al-anwar ("the Niche of Lights"), the Qur'an, and Aristotle's Metaphysics.
Abu Hāmid al-Ghazālī (born between 1056 and 1058 - died on December 18, 1111) is a central figure in the history of Islamic theology, jurisprudence, philosophy and Sufism. Of Persian origin, he lived and worked in Baghdad and in other intellectual centers of the Muslim world of the 11th and 12th century. Click here to learn more.
"Al-Ghazali: the Alchemist of Happiness," a film directed by Ovidio Salazar
Al-Ghazālī’s intellectual autobiography al-Munqidh min aḍ-ḍalāl is available in two English translations:
Al-Ghazālī, Al-Ghazali’s Path to Sufism: His Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal) and Five Key Texts, Translated and Annotated by R.J. McCarthy, Fons Vitae, Louisville 1999
Al-Ghazālī, Deliverance from Error, Translated by M. Abūlaylah & G. McLean, Washington, DC 2001, also available on http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/IIA-2/IIA-02.htm
On Islamic Mysticism, we recommend following introduction:
Alexander Knysh, Islamic Mysticism: A Short History, Leiden 2000.
On Islamic philosophy:
Majid Fakhry, History of Islamic Philosophy, New York 1970.
Oliver Leaman, Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge 1985.
W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Edinburgh 1985.
Studies on al-Ghazālī:
Frank Griffel, Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Theology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Eric Ormsby, Ghazali: The Revival of Islam, Oxford 2008.
W. Montgomery Watt, Muslim Intellectual: A Study of Al-Ghazālī, Edinburgh 1963.
W. Montgomery Watt, The faith and practice of al-Ghazālī, Oxford 1994.
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