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Al-Ghazali the Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God Al-Maqsad Al-Asna Fi Sharh Asm� Allah Al-Husna

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ISBN-10: 0946621314

ISBN-13: 9780946621316

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: David Burrell, Nazih Daher, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, Nazih Daher, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

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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 resonance of each of these divine names, and reveals the functions they perform both in the cosmos and in the soul of the spiritual adept. Although some of the book is rigorously analytical, the author never fails to attract the reader with his profound mystical and ethical insights, which, conveyed in his sincere and straightforward idiom, have made of this book one of the perennial classics of Muslim…    
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Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Islamic Texts Society
Publication date: 12/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

#60;b#62;David B. #60;/b#62;#60;b#62;Burrell#60;/b#62;, Hesburgh Professor emeritus at University of Notre Dame, teaches Ethics and Development at Uganda Martyrs University. He has published extensively in comparative issues in philosophical theology in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and is the author of #60;i#62;Faith and Freedom#60;/i#62; (2006), Wiley-Blackwell.#60;/p#62;

Nazih Daher is Chairman of the Department of Asian and African Languages at the Foreign Service Institute of the United States Department of State.

Abu Hamid Muhammadal-Ghazaliis regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of medieval Islam. A theologian, logician, jurist, and mystic, he is known for revealing the compatibility of the outward forms of religion with the inner experiences of the Sufi and mystical traditions.H. T. Littlejohnis a retired pastor and lecturer who has devoted many years of study to both Christian and Muslim theology. He lives in Seattle.

Explaining the Meaning of 'Name', 'Named', and 'Act of Naming'
Explanation of Names Close in Meaning to One Another
On the One Name which Has Different Meanings
On Explaining that a Man's Perfection and Happiness Consist in Being Moulded by the Moral Qualities of God
On Explaining the Meaning of God's Ninety-nine Names
An Explanation of How these Many Names Resolve to the Essence
An Explanation of How these Attributes Resolve to a Single Essence, according to the School of the Mu'tazilites and the Philosophers
Explaining that the Names of God Are Not Limited to Ninety-nine
Explaining the Benefits of Enumerating Ninety-nine Names Specifically
Are the Names and Attributes Applied to God Based on Divine Instruction, or Permitted on the Basis of Reason?