Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence

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Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence

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Book XXXIV of the Revival of the Religious Sciences
(Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)

Author: ABU HAMID AL-GHAZALI

Translated by: ANTHONY F. SHAKER

ISBN (HARDBACK): 978 1 903682 80 7
PRICE: £34.99
ISBN (PAPERBACK): 978 1 903682 81 4
PRICE: £17.99

PAGES: 224
SIZE: 234 x 156mm
PUBLISHED: June 2019
OTHER: Glossary. Bibliography. Indexes.

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Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence is the thirty-fourth chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din), which is widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. In Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali considers two themes dear to Islamic devotional literature: poverty and abstinence. Taking as his example the Prophet’s love for the poor, Ghazali explains that poverty is not simply an accidental state of destitution that might befall anyone but rather an inner acceptance of the Will of God and a form of abstinence for His sake. Thus the life of poverty described by Ghazali in Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence refers to what every devoted follower of the Prophet is meant to adopt whatever his or her outer state may be.

In this volume, the Islamic Texts Society has included the translation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s own Introduction to the Revival of the Religious Sciences which gives the reasons that caused him to write the work, the structure of the whole of the Revival and places each of the chapters in the context of the others.

Dr Anthony Shaker is the author of several studies including the only complete study of Sadr al-Din Qunawi. He is also the translator of both Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity & Truthfulness and Al-Ghazali on Vigilance and Self-examination in the Islamic Texts Society’s al-Ghazali Series.

‘…the series as a whole, [is] a significant contribution to our understanding of this key figure in Islamic intellectual thought.’
Oliver Leaman, BRISMES Bulletin.

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