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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... read more
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“Whoever knows all things without knowing God -- great and glorious -- is not worthy to be called wise, because he does not know the most sublime and highest of things.”
First Sentence edit
Praise be to God, alone in His majesty and His might, and unique in His sublimity and His everlastingness, who clips the wings of intellects well short of the glow of His glory, and who makes the way of knowing Him pass through the inability to know Him; who makes the tongues of the eloquent fall short of praising the beauty of His presence unless they use the means by which He praises Himself, and us His names and attributes which He as enumerated.
Table of Contents edit
Aim of the Book
Beginning of the Book
Part One:
1. Explaining the meaning of 'name', 'named' and 'act of naming'
2. Explanation of names close in meaning to one another
3. On the one name which has different meanings
4. On explaining that a man's perfection and happiness consists in being moulded by the moral qualities of God
Part Two:
1. On explaining the Meanings of God's Ninety-Nine Names
2. An explanation of how these many names resolve to the essence with seven attributes, according to the Sunni school
3. An explanation of how all of these attributes resolve to a single essence, according tot he school of the Mu'tazilites and the philosphers
Part Three:
1. Explaining that the names of God are not limited to ninety-nine
2. Explaining the benefits of enumerating ninety-nine names specifically
3. Are the names and attributes applied to God based on divine instruction, or permitted on the basis of reason?
Authors & Contributors edit
- Al-Ghazzali (Author)
Other Contributors:
- David B. Burrell (Translator)
- Nizah Daher (Translator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: The Islamic Texts Society
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0946621306
Page Count: 216
Publisher: The Islamic Texts Society
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0946621306
Page Count: 216
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 297.211
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- The Islamic Texts Society: A link to the publisher's page of this book.
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