Marriage and Sexuality in Islam
Marriage and Sexuality in Islam

Author: Ghazzālī

Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Islam considers marriage as the most intimate communion between man and woman. The mystery of sex finds it fulfilment when intimate spiritual harmony is combined with the physical link. Marriage and family laws are, therefore, an important part of Islamic law for the fulfilment of its ultimate objective of building a harmonious and peaceful human society. In his inimitable style, Imam al-Ghazali, may Allah be pleased with him, discusses this subject in this small book, and shows how Islam, despite differences in rules and marriage, sets out inviolable principles so that marriage is not distorted by godless understandings now threatening to dehumanise many a society of both the East and West. The Islamic code of marriage and family is second to none in importance in helping to lead a life of goodness and purity.

On the Duties of Brotherhood
On the Duties of Brotherhood

Author: Imam Al-Ghazali

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1468312014

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On the Duties of Brotherhood shows how brotherhood can be an aid to spiritual purification and the perfection of one's worship, as well as a source of help and comfort in the world. Readers will find the road to fellowship—by way of forgiveness, prayer, sincerity, loyalty, and consideration—and be enlightened by stories that illustrate the doctrine of brotherhood.

The Book of Truthfulness
The Book of Truthfulness

Author: Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz

Publisher: Islamic Book Trust

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9670526078

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The importance of this treatise lies in the fact that it is the earliest systematic presentation of the theory of Sufi experience, written by a practicing Sufi. Beginning with the idea of Sidq or truthfulness, the author develops his theme to include “stations” of fear, hope, trust, love, shame, longing, intimacy, all of which the mystic must pass on his path to God. Throughout the discourse the author constantly refers, typically as a mystic, to higher degrees of the various stations which cannot be described in written language. In a style which foreshadows the practice of later writers, the author begins with Qur’anic sanctions, and follows these by references to the Sunnah and the lives of the saints.

Al-Ghazzali
Al-Ghazzali

Author: Laleh Bakhtiar

Publisher: A B C International Group, Incorporated

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781567446944

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A translation from the Persian of the first eight paragraphs of Know your self, the first topic of the prolegomena of al-Ghazzali's Alchemy of happiness, with extensive commentary and explicative passages selected from the rest of the work.

Mystical Dimensions of Islam
Mystical Dimensions of Islam

Author: Annemarie Schimmel

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0807899763

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Thirty-five years after its original publication, Mystical Dimensions of Islam still stands as the most valuable introduction to Sufism, the main form of Islamic mysticism. This edition brings to a new generation of readers Annemarie Schimmel's his